Published in Am J Clin Nutr on February 01, 2005
Accuracy and usefulness of BMI measures based on self-reported weight and height: findings from the NHANES & NHIS 2001-2006. BMC Public Health (2009) 3.68
Distribution of hyperglycaemia and related cardiovascular disease risk factors in low-income countries: a cross-sectional population-based survey in rural Uganda. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 2.52
Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns. BMC Public Health (2008) 2.33
Gender-ethnic disparity in BMI and waist circumference distribution shifts in US adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2008) 1.68
Moderate waist circumference and hypertension prevalence: the REGARDS Study. Am J Hypertens (2011) 1.50
Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, and Other Measures of Adiposity in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Peruvian Adults. Int J Hypertens (2011) 1.34
Prevention of overweight and obesity: how effective is the current public health approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2010) 1.34
Can body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio predict the presence of multiple metabolic risk factors in Chinese subjects? BMC Public Health (2011) 1.33
Sexual dimorphism of adipose tissue distribution across the lifespan: a cross-sectional whole-body magnetic resonance imaging study. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2009) 1.31
Age and race impact the association between BMI and CVD mortality in women. Public Health Rep (2007) 1.24
Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. PLoS Genet (2013) 1.24
Ethnic-specific BMI and waist circumference thresholds. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2011) 1.18
Predictors of metabolic syndrome in the Iranian population: waist circumference, body mass index, or waist to hip ratio? Cholesterol (2013) 1.15
Obesity index that better predict metabolic syndrome: body mass index, waist circumference, waist hip ratio, or waist height ratio. J Obes (2013) 1.05
The relationship between body size and mortality in the linked Scottish Health Surveys: cross-sectional surveys with follow-up. Int J Obes (Lond) (2010) 1.05
Interactions between race/ethnicity and anthropometry in risk of incident diabetes: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.03
The relation of acculturation to overweight, obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes among U.S. Mexican-American women and men. Ethn Dis (2012) 1.02
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
Role of depressive symptoms in explaining socioeconomic status disparities in dietary quality and central adiposity among US adults: a structural equation modeling approach. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.02
Sleep Duration and Waist Circumference in Adults: A Meta-Analysis. Sleep (2015) 0.98
Imaging body composition in obesity and weight loss: challenges and opportunities. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes (2010) 0.98
Relationship between adiposity and admixture in African-American and Hispanic-American women. Int J Obes (Lond) (2011) 0.97
A randomized trial of a diet and exercise intervention for overweight and obese women from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods: Sisters Taking Action for Real Success (STARS). Contemp Clin Trials (2011) 0.96
Waist circumference threshold values for type 2 diabetes risk. J Diabetes Sci Technol (2009) 0.95
Adherence to accelerometer protocols among women from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. J Phys Act Health (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
Anthropometric measurements of general and central obesity and the prediction of cardiovascular disease risk in women: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open (2014) 0.93
Metabolic risk susceptibility in men is partially related to adiponectin/leptin ratio. J Obes (2013) 0.92
Exploring risk factors in Latino cardiovascular disease: the role of education, nativity, and gender. Am J Public Health (2013) 0.89
Measures of adiposity and cardiovascular disease risk factors, New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2004. Prev Chronic Dis (2011) 0.88
Socio-demographic disparities in distribution shifts over time in various adiposity measures among American children and adolescents: What changes in prevalence rates could not reveal. Int J Pediatr Obes (2010) 0.88
Waist circumference as measure of abdominal fat compartments. J Obes (2013) 0.88
Prevalence of Metabolic Abnormalities and Association with Obesity among Saudi College Students. Int J Hypertens (2012) 0.86
Obesity phenotype and coronary heart disease risk as estimated by the Framingham risk score. J Korean Med Sci (2012) 0.85
Metabolic syndrome among students attending a historically black college: prevalence and gender differences. Diabetol Metab Syndr (2013) 0.83
Independent association of waist circumference with hypertension and diabetes in African American women, South Carolina, 2007-2009. Prev Chronic Dis (2012) 0.83
Clinician's guide to the updated ABCs of cardiovascular disease prevention. J Am Heart Assoc (2014) 0.82
Comparing measures of overall and central obesity in relation to cardiometabolic risk factors among US Hispanic/Latino adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2015) 0.82
Ethnic disparities in metabolic syndrome in malaysia: an analysis by risk factors. Metab Syndr Relat Disord (2011) 0.82
Utility of anthropometric measures in a multiethnic population: their association with prevalent diabetes, hypertension and other chronic disease comorbidities. J Community Health (2014) 0.82
Associations between physical activity and sedentary time on components of metabolic syndrome among adults with HIV. AIDS Care (2014) 0.81
Waist circumference and the risk of hypertension and prediabetes among Filipino women. Eur J Nutr (2012) 0.80
Association between obesity indices and type 2 diabetes mellitus among middle-aged and elderly people in Jinan, China: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open (2016) 0.79
Adiposity and blood pressure among 55 000 relatively lean rural adults in southwest of China. J Hum Hypertens (2015) 0.79
Obesity, obesity related disease, and disability. Korean J Fam Med (2011) 0.79
Greater abdominal fat accumulation is associated with higher metabolic risk in Chinese than in white people: an ethnicity study. PLoS One (2013) 0.79
Epidemiologic behavior of obesity in the Maracaibo City metabolic syndrome prevalence study. PLoS One (2012) 0.79
Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth: a cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort. Diabetol Metab Syndr (2010) 0.78
Development of a cardiovascular risk score for use in low- and middle-income countries. J Nutr (2011) 0.78
Hyperleptinemia, adiposity, and risk of metabolic syndrome in older adults. J Nutr Metab (2013) 0.78
Ethnic and gender susceptibility to metabolic risk. Metab Syndr Relat Disord (2013) 0.78
Cut off values for abdominal obesity as a criterion of metabolic syndrome in an ethnic Kyrgyz population (Central Asian region). Cardiovasc Diabetol (2012) 0.78
The feasibility of an e-mail-delivered intervention to improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors in African American college students. J Am Coll Health (2015) 0.78
BMI-specific waist circumference thresholds to discriminate elevated cardiometabolic risk in White and African American adults. Obes Facts (2013) 0.76
Sex-related differences in the association between waist circumference and bone mineral density in a Korean population. BMC Musculoskelet Disord (2014) 0.76
The abilities of new anthropometric indices in identifying cardiometabolic abnormalities, and influence of residence area and lifestyle on these anthropometric indices in a Chinese community-dwelling population. Clin Interv Aging (2014) 0.75
Maternal BMI as a predictor of methylation of obesity-related genes in saliva samples from preschool-age Hispanic children at-risk for obesity. BMC Genomics (2017) 0.75
Correlation of adiposity indices with cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy adults of Singapore: a cross-sectional study. BMC Obes (2016) 0.75
Mango Supplementation Has No Effects on Inflammatory Mediators in Obese Adults. Nutr Metab Insights (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
Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents. J Pediatr (2004) 7.08
Myths, presumptions, and facts about obesity. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.39
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
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
Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 4.14
Sleep duration as a risk factor for diabetes incidence in a large U.S. sample. Sleep (2007) 4.14
Incretin levels and effect are markedly enhanced 1 month after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2007) 3.97
Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional image. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2004) 3.59
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
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 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
Comparisons of waist circumferences measured at 4 sites. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 2.78
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
Ten putative contributors to the obesity epidemic. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr (2009) 2.71
QDR 4500A dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer underestimates fat mass in comparison with criterion methods in adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.66
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
Energy balance and its components: implications for body weight regulation. Am J Clin Nutr (2012) 2.51
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
Adipose tissue quantification by imaging methods: a proposed classification. Obes Res (2003) 2.19
Air displacement plethysmography: validation in overweight and obese subjects. Obes Res (2005) 2.07
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
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
Scaling of body composition to height: relevance to height-normalized indexes. Am J Clin Nutr (2011) 1.81
Relations between dietary sodium and potassium intakes and mortality from cardiovascular disease: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risks. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.80
Walking and sports participation and mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 1.80
Uric acid and left ventricular hypertrophy in Japanese men. Circ J (2009) 1.79
Scaling of human body composition to stature: new insights into body mass index. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.79
Self-report-based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 1.79
Adipose tissue distribution is different in type 2 diabetes. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.78
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
Why do obese patients not lose more weight when treated with low-calorie diets? A mechanistic perspective. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.68
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
Independent associations of insulin resistance with high whole-body intermuscular and low leg subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution in obese HIV-infected women. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.63
Predictors of attrition and weight loss success: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Behav Res Ther (2009) 1.59
Perceived mental stress and mortality from cardiovascular disease among Japanese men and women: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk Sponsored by Monbusho (JACC Study). Circulation (2002) 1.59
TT virus in the nasal secretions of children with acute respiratory diseases: relations to viremia and disease severity. J Virol (2003) 1.58
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
Does body mass index adequately convey a patient's mortality risk? JAMA (2013) 1.54
Metabolic syndrome in normal-weight Americans: new definition of the metabolically obese, normal-weight individual. Diabetes Care (2004) 1.54
Weight criticism during physical activity, coping skills, and reported physical activity in children. Pediatrics (2002) 1.51
Dietary intake of calcium in relation to mortality from cardiovascular disease: the JACC Study. Stroke (2005) 1.51
Sex and race differences in fat distribution among Asian, African-American, and Caucasian prepubertal children. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2002) 1.51
Predicting fat percent by skinfolds in racial groups: Durnin and Womersley revisited. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2011) 1.48
Small organs with a high metabolic rate explain lower resting energy expenditure in African American than in white adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2006) 1.48
Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in children and adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr (2006) 1.48
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein is quite low in Japanese men at high coronary risk. Circ J (2007) 1.46
Volume estimates by imaging methods: model comparisons with visible woman as the reference. Obes Res (2003) 1.46
Physiological models of body composition and human obesity. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2007) 1.43
Marital status and mortality among Japanese men and women: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. BMC Public Health (2007) 1.42
Ethnicity-related skeletal muscle differences across the lifespan. Am J Hum Biol (2009) 1.42