Published in Am J Clin Nutr on February 01, 2003
Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 5.01
Metformin extended release treatment of adolescent obesity: a 48-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 48-week follow-up. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2010) 2.68
Waist circumference correlates with metabolic syndrome indicators better than percentage fat. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2006) 2.00
Waist circumference percentiles for 7- to 17-year-old Turkish children and adolescents. Eur J Pediatr (2007) 1.64
The "lipid accumulation product" performs better than the body mass index for recognizing cardiovascular risk: a population-based comparison. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2005) 1.53
Asian Americans have greater prevalence of metabolic syndrome despite lower body mass index. Int J Obes (Lond) (2010) 1.50
Moderate waist circumference and hypertension prevalence: the REGARDS Study. Am J Hypertens (2011) 1.50
Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio of Hong Kong Chinese children. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.48
Visceral adipose tissue: relationships between single slice areas at different locations and obesity-related health risks. Int J Obes (Lond) (2006) 1.42
A simple index of lipid overaccumulation is a good marker of liver steatosis. BMC Gastroenterol (2010) 1.38
Interethnic differences in the accuracy of anthropometric indicators of obesity in screening for high risk of coronary heart disease. Int J Obes (Lond) (2009) 1.30
The body adiposity index (hip circumference ÷ height(1.5)) is not a more accurate measure of adiposity than is BMI, waist circumference, or hip circumference. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2012) 1.26
Mortality, all-cause and cardiovascular disease, over 15 years in multiethnic mauritius: impact of diabetes and intermediate forms of glucose tolerance. Diabetes Care (2010) 1.21
The influence of hip circumference on the relationship between abdominal obesity and mortality. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.21
Prediction of hypertension by different anthropometric indices in adults: the change in estimate approach. Public Health Nutr (2009) 1.16
Measurement and definitions of obesity in childhood and adolescence: a field guide for the uninitiated. Nutr J (2007) 1.16
Independent effects of age-related changes in waist circumference and BMI z scores in predicting cardiovascular disease risk factors in a prospective cohort of adolescent females. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 1.08
Comparison of Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, Percent Body Fat and Other Measure of Adiposity in Identifying Cardiovascular Disease Risks among Thai Adults. Obes Res Clin Pract (2008) 1.02
Preventing weight gain: the baseline weight related behaviors and delivery of a randomized controlled intervention in community based women. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.97
Waist circumference measurement site does not affect relationships with visceral adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in children. Pediatr Obes (2012) 0.96
Validity of a new abdominal bioelectrical impedance device to measure abdominal and visceral fat: comparison with MRI. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2010) 0.96
Improvements in vascular health by a low-fat diet, but not a high-fat diet, are mediated by changes in adipocyte biology. Nutr J (2011) 0.95
Waist circumference cut-off values for the prediction of cardiovascular risk factors clustering in Chinese school-aged children: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.93
Waist circumference is the best index for obesity-related cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with spinal cord injury. J Neurotrauma (2013) 0.92
Identification of cardiometabolic risk among collegiate football players. J Athl Train (2010) 0.92
The effect of work-time influence on health and well-being: a quasi-experimental intervention study among eldercare workers. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2011) 0.92
Waist circumference and pulmonary function: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Syst Rev (2012) 0.90
Identifying adolescent metabolic syndrome using body mass index and waist circumference. Prev Chronic Dis (2008) 0.88
Adiposity and postural balance control: correlations between bioelectrical impedance and stabilometric signals in elderly Brazilian women. Clinics (Sao Paulo) (2011) 0.88
Comparison of two waist circumference measurement protocols: the SEARCH for diabetes in youth study. Pediatr Obes (2012) 0.88
Predictive equations for central obesity via anthropometrics, stereovision imaging and MRI in adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2013) 0.87
Body composition analysis in the pediatric population. Pediatr Endocrinol Rev (2012) 0.86
Oxidative stress-elevated high gamma glutamyl transferase levels, and aging, intake of tropical food plants, migration and visual disability in Central Africans. Int J Ophthalmol (2012) 0.86
Waist circumference percentiles for Portuguese children and adolescents aged 10 to 18 years. Eur J Pediatr (2011) 0.86
The reliability of weight-for-length/height Z scores in children. Matern Child Nutr (2014) 0.86
DXA-measured visceral adipose tissue predicts impaired glucose tolerance and metabolic syndrome in obese Caucasian and African-American women. Eur J Clin Nutr (2014) 0.85
Are the recent secular increases in the waist circumference of adults independent of changes in BMI? Am J Clin Nutr (2015) 0.85
Neck and waist circumference biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in a cohort of predominantly African-American college students: a preliminary study. J Acad Nutr Diet (2013) 0.85
Impact of medium and long chain triglycerides consumption on appetite and food intake in overweight men. Eur J Clin Nutr (2014) 0.84
Associations between adiposity indicators and elevated blood pressure among Chinese children and adolescents. J Hum Hypertens (2014) 0.84
The association between "hypertriglyceridemic waist" and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in a multiethnic population: a cross-sectional study. Lipids Health Dis (2014) 0.84
Prevalence and determinants of metabolic syndrome among adults in a rural area of Northwest China. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Association Between Elevated Liver Enzymes and Metabolic Syndrome Among Thai Adults. Diabetes Metab Syndr (2008) 0.83
The 40-Something randomized controlled trial to prevent weight gain in mid-age women. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.82
A weight-loss diet including coffee-derived mannooligosaccharides enhances adipose tissue loss in overweight men but not women. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2011) 0.82
Four-compartment cellular level body composition model: comparison of two approaches. Obes Res (2005) 0.82
Defining central adiposity in terms of clinical practice in children and adolescents. Int J Prev Med (2011) 0.81
Optimal central obesity measurement site for assessing cardiometabolic and type 2 diabetes risk in middle-aged adults. PLoS One (2015) 0.81
Ethnic differences in body fat distribution among Asian pre-pubertal children: a cross-sectional multicenter study. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.81
Prevalence of insulin resistance and its relationship with cardiovascular disease risk factors among Thai adults over 35 years old. Diabetes Res Clin Pract (2010) 0.81
Coffee mannooligosaccharides, consumed as part of a free-living, weight-maintaining diet, increase the proportional reduction in body volume in overweight men. J Nutr (2010) 0.81
Adverse childhood experiences and the cardiovascular health of children: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pediatr (2013) 0.81
Systematic review on the association of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents with cardio-metabolic risk factors. J Res Med Sci (2015) 0.81
Effect of weight loss on adipokine levels in obese patients. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes (2011) 0.81
Dairy consumption and stroke risk. Int J Prev Med (2013) 0.80
Reliability and practicality of measuring waist circumference to monitor cardiovascular risk among community mental health center patients. Community Ment Health J (2013) 0.80
Association between body size and blood pressure in children from different ethnic origins. Cardiovasc Diabetol (2012) 0.80
Intake of Gnetum africanum and Dacryodes edulis, imbalance of oxidant/antioxidant status and prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in central Africans. PLoS One (2012) 0.80
Measurement matters. J Pediatr (2010) 0.79
Weight changes in Portuguese patients with depression: which factors are involved? Nutr J (2014) 0.79
Comparison of the performance of two measures of central adiposity among apparently healthy Nigerians using the receiver operating characteristic analysis. Indian J Endocrinol Metab (2011) 0.79
Ethnic differences in cardiometabolic risk profile at age 5-6 years: the ABCD study. PLoS One (2012) 0.78
Association of High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Concentrations and Metabolic Syndrome among Thai Adults. Asian Biomed (Res Rev News) (2010) 0.78
Waist circumference measures: cutoff analyses to detect obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in a Southeast Brazilian middle-aged men population--a cross-sectional study. Lipids Health Dis (2014) 0.78
Changes in LDL Oxidative Status and Oxidative and Inflammatory Gene Expression after Red Wine Intake in Healthy People: A Randomized Trial. Mediators Inflamm (2015) 0.77
Built Environment Associations with Adiposity Parameters among Overweight and Obese Hispanic Youth. Prev Med Rep (2015) 0.77
Adiposity indices in the prediction of metabolic abnormalities associated with cardiovascular disease in non-diabetic adults. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis (2010) 0.77
Intraperitoneal fat and insulin resistance in obese adolescents. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2009) 0.77
Triglyceride Glucose-Body Mass Index Is a Simple and Clinically Useful Surrogate Marker for Insulin Resistance in Nondiabetic Individuals. PLoS One (2016) 0.77
Arterial distensibility is reduced in overweight pre- and early pubescent children. Eur J Pediatr (2009) 0.77
Are the Recent Secular Increases in Waist Circumference among Children and Adolescents Independent of Changes in BMI? PLoS One (2015) 0.76
The association of general and central obesity with major dietary patterns in adult women living in tehran, iran. ARYA Atheroscler (2010) 0.76
High Discrepancy in Abdominal Obesity Prevalence According to Different Waist Circumference Cut-Offs and Measurement Methods in Children: Need for Age-Risk-Weighted Standardized Cut-Offs? PLoS One (2016) 0.76
Neck circumference as a potential marker of metabolic syndrome among college students. Rev Lat Am Enfermagem (2014) 0.76
Significant increment in the prevalence of overweight and obesity documented between 1994 and 2008 in Mexican college students. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes (2010) 0.76
BMI-specific waist circumference thresholds to discriminate elevated cardiometabolic risk in White and African American adults. Obes Facts (2013) 0.76
Impact of the metabolic syndrome on aortic pulse pressure and ascending aortic pulsatility in patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries. Can J Cardiol (2009) 0.76
Waist Circumferences of Chilean Students: Comparison of the CDC-2012 Standard and Proposed Percentile Curves. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.75
Individually tailored screening of susceptibility to sarcopenia using p53 codon 72 polymorphism, phenotypes, and conventional risk factors. Dis Markers (2014) 0.75
Adolescent Obesity and Its Risks: How to Screen and When to Refer. J Clin Outcomes Manag (2014) 0.75
Obesity phenotypes and resorption percentage after breast autologous fat grafting: Rule of low-grade inflammation. Adv Biomed Res (2016) 0.75
Protein consumptions in stroke patients. J Res Med Sci (2013) 0.75
Comparisons of Waist Circumference Measurements at Five Different Anatomical Sites in Chinese Children. Biomed Res Int (2017) 0.75
The intake of energy and selected nutrients by thai urban sedentary workers: an evaluation of adherence to dietary recommendations. J Nutr Metab (2014) 0.75
Comparing Two Waist-to-Height Ratio Measurements with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Youth with Diabetes. Int J Child Health Nutr (2016) 0.75
Dietary Predictors of Overweight and Obesity in Iranian Adolescents. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2016) 0.75
An observational study on the relationship between serum uric acid and hypertension in a Northern Chinese population aged 45 to 59 years. Medicine (Baltimore) (2017) 0.75
Community-based participatory research to design a faith-enhanced diabetes prevention program: The Better Me Within randomized trial. Contemp Clin Trials (2017) 0.75
The metabolic syndrome: prevalence and associated risk factor findings in the US population from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Arch Intern Med (2003) 10.84
Short sleep duration as a risk factor for hypertension: analyses of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Hypertension (2006) 8.72
Low relative skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) in older persons is associated with functional impairment and physical disability. J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 8.28
Inadequate sleep as a risk factor for obesity: analyses of the NHANES I. Sleep (2005) 8.15
Myths, presumptions, and facts about obesity. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.39
2013 AHA/ACC/TOS guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 5.24
Association of an intensive lifestyle intervention with remission of type 2 diabetes. JAMA (2012) 5.15
2013 AHA/ACC/TOS guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society. Circulation (2013) 5.02
Effects of an oral ghrelin mimetic on body composition and clinical outcomes in healthy older adults: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2008) 4.85
Weight Loss and Health Status 3 Years after Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents. N Engl J Med (2015) 4.35
Dual energy X-Ray absorptiometry body composition reference values from NHANES. PLoS One (2009) 4.29
Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholds. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 4.20
Sleep duration as a risk factor for diabetes incidence in a large U.S. sample. Sleep (2007) 4.14
The bone mineral density in childhood study: bone mineral content and density according to age, sex, and race. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2007) 4.00
Alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout pigs for xenotransplantation: where do we go from here? Transplantation (2007) 3.65
Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional image. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2004) 3.59
Weight change and health outcomes at 3 years after bariatric surgery among individuals with severe obesity. JAMA (2013) 3.57
Development of bioelectrical impedance analysis prediction equations for body composition with the use of a multicomponent model for use in epidemiologic surveys. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 3.40
Adipose tissue in muscle: a novel depot similar in size to visceral adipose tissue. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 3.40
Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program: a randomized trial. JAMA (2003) 3.36
Body mass index and waist circumference independently contribute to the prediction of nonabdominal, abdominal subcutaneous, and visceral fat. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 3.33
A randomized study on the effect of weight loss on obstructive sleep apnea among obese patients with type 2 diabetes: the Sleep AHEAD study. Arch Intern Med (2009) 3.27
Metabolic effects of a growth hormone-releasing factor in patients with HIV. N Engl J Med (2007) 3.13
Obesity and cardiovascular disease: pathophysiology, evaluation, and effect of weight loss. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2006) 3.11
Low-dose leptin reverses skeletal muscle, autonomic, and neuroendocrine adaptations to maintenance of reduced weight. J Clin Invest (2005) 3.10
A survey of the genetics of stomach, liver, and adipose gene expression from a morbidly obese cohort. Genome Res (2011) 3.00
Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by a new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry method. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 2.96
Obesity paradox in cancer: new insights provided by body composition. Am J Clin Nutr (2014) 2.95
Dietary carbohydrate (amount and type) in the prevention and management of diabetes: a statement by the american diabetes association. Diabetes Care (2004) 2.92
Sarcopenic obesity predicts instrumental activities of daily living disability in the elderly. Obes Res (2004) 2.76
Low dose leptin administration reverses effects of sustained weight-reduction on energy expenditure and circulating concentrations of thyroid hormones. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2002) 2.76
Independent association of insulin resistance with larger amounts of intermuscular adipose tissue and a greater acute insulin response to glucose in African American than in white nondiabetic women. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.72
QDR 4500A dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer underestimates fat mass in comparison with criterion methods in adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.66
Measurement of human daily physical activity. Obes Res (2003) 2.62
Visceral adipose tissue: relations between single-slice areas and total volume. Am J Clin Nutr (2004) 2.57
A computational model to determine energy intake during weight loss. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 2.55
Relation of central adiposity and body mass index to the development of diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 2.55
Energy balance and its components: implications for body weight regulation. Am J Clin Nutr (2012) 2.51
Mortality, health outcomes, and body mass index in the overweight range: a science advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation (2009) 2.49
Sarcopenia and increased adipose tissue infiltration of muscle in elderly African American women. Am J Clin Nutr (2004) 2.48
Chronic mechanical circulatory support for inotrope-dependent heart failure patients who are not transplant candidates: results of the INTrEPID Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 2.41
Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.30
Weight loss with naltrexone SR/bupropion SR combination therapy as an adjunct to behavior modification: the COR-BMOD trial. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2010) 2.25
Factors influencing body composition in persons with spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional study. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2003) 2.23
Missing data in randomized clinical trials for weight loss: scope of the problem, state of the field, and performance of statistical methods. PLoS One (2009) 2.21
Improving energy expenditure estimation for physical activity. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2004) 2.20
Limited recovery of β-cell function after gastric bypass despite clinical diabetes remission. Diabetes (2013) 2.19
Adipose tissue quantification by imaging methods: a proposed classification. Obes Res (2003) 2.19
Assessment methods in human body composition. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care (2008) 2.09
Air displacement plethysmography: validation in overweight and obese subjects. Obes Res (2005) 2.07
Association of HIV infection and HIV/HCV coinfection with C-reactive protein levels: the fat redistribution and metabolic change in HIV infection (FRAM) study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 2.05
Neuropeptide Y5 receptor antagonism does not induce clinically meaningful weight loss in overweight and obese adults. Cell Metab (2006) 2.02
Is percentage body fat differentially related to body mass index in Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and European Americans? Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 2.01
Waist circumference correlates with metabolic syndrome indicators better than percentage fat. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2006) 2.00
Sleep duration associated with mortality in elderly, but not middle-aged, adults in a large US sample. Sleep (2008) 1.98
Association of upper trunk and visceral adipose tissue volume with insulin resistance in control and HIV-infected subjects in the FRAM study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2007) 1.98
Recombinant variant of ciliary neurotrophic factor for weight loss in obese adults: a randomized, dose-ranging study. JAMA (2003) 1.97
The acyclic CB1R inverse agonist taranabant mediates weight loss by increasing energy expenditure and decreasing caloric intake. Cell Metab (2008) 1.94
Waist Circumference and Cardiometabolic Risk: a Consensus Statement from Shaping America's Health: Association for Weight Management and Obesity Prevention; NAASO, the Obesity Society; the American Society for Nutrition; and the American Diabetes Association. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2007) 1.87
Lifestyle behaviors associated with lower risk of having the metabolic syndrome. Metabolism (2004) 1.87
Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.86
Obesity-related leptin regulates Alzheimer's Abeta. FASEB J (2004) 1.85
Comparison of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometric and anthropometric measures of adiposity in relation to adiposity-related biologic factors. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.84
Body-size dependence of resting energy expenditure can be attributed to nonenergetic homogeneity of fat-free mass. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (2002) 1.82
School-based intervention acutely improves insulin sensitivity and decreases inflammatory markers and body fatness in junior high school students. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2006) 1.81
Self-report-based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 1.79
Scaling of human body composition to stature: new insights into body mass index. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.79
Adipose tissue distribution is different in type 2 diabetes. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.78
Aortic valve bypass for the high-risk patient with aortic stenosis. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.75
Percentage body fat ranges associated with metabolic syndrome risk: results based on the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994). Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 1.75
Changes in childhood food consumption patterns: a cause for concern in light of increasing body weights. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 1.72
Comparison of visceral adipose tissue mass in adult African Americans and whites. Obes Res (2005) 1.71
Smaller organ mass with greater age, except for heart. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2009) 1.70
Baseline characteristics of participants in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 (LABS-2) study. Surg Obes Relat Dis (2013) 1.70
Waist circumference and abdominal adipose tissue distribution: influence of age and sex. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 1.64
Comparison of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and magnetic resonance imaging-measured adipose tissue depots in HIV-infected and control subjects. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.63
Aprotinin shows both hemostatic and antithrombotic effects during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.63
Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery: methodological features of the first prospective multicenter study of adolescent bariatric surgery. J Pediatr Surg (2007) 1.61
Predictors of attrition and weight loss success: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Behav Res Ther (2009) 1.59
Pre-transplant reversible pulmonary hypertension predicts higher risk for mortality after cardiac transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant (2005) 1.59
Intermuscular adipose tissue-free skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in adults. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2004) 1.57
Measurement of percentage of body fat in 411 children and adolescents: a comparison of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry with a four-compartment model. Pediatrics (2004) 1.55