• This article explores the link between obesity and diabetes, the mechanisms behind the connection, complications that can arise, and preventive lifestyle measures and medical interventions to reduce diabetes risk. (sdgln.com)
  • Waist circumference and waist-hip ratio better estimate abdominal obesity driving insulin resistance. (sdgln.com)
  • Schneider HJ, Klotsche J, Silber S, Stalla GK, Wittchen H-U. Measuring abdominal obesity: effects of height on distribution of cardiometabolic risk factors risk using waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. (scielosp.org)
  • Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL). (wikipedia.org)
  • HPA-axis dysfunction may explain the reported risk indication of abdominal obesity to cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes and stroke. (wikipedia.org)
  • Central obesity is a key feature of the syndrome, as both a sign and a cause, in that the increasing adiposity often reflected in high waist circumference may both result from and contribute to insulin resistance. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of abdominal obesity and its associated factors among adolescents, independent of confounders. (bvsalud.org)
  • The association of abdominal obesity and independent variables was assessed using the chi-square test and the magnitude of associations was verified using Binary Logistic Regression in an unadjusted model and adjusted for confounders (gender, age, socioeconomic status, physical activity and sedentary behaviour). (bvsalud.org)
  • The abdominal obesity prevalence was 17.5% (CI = 15.4%-19.6%), and was higher in boys than in girls. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adolescents with abdominal obesity had higher values of body weight, height, body mass index and sedentary behaviour compared to eutrophic individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • Being male increased the risk of abdominal obesity by 36% in adolescents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Abdominal obesity was significantly associated with gender and high levels of sedentary behaviour, regardless of confounding factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is strongly associated with abdominal obesity and insulin resistance and effective approaches to nutrition (e.g., omega-3 fatty acids intake) might improve the cardiometabolic risk profile. (frontiersin.org)
  • The term metabolic syndrome (MS) is used to describe a cluster of metabolic disorders: insulin resistance (IR) or hyperglycemia, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia (high very-low-density lipoprotein-triglyceride [VLDL-TG] concentration and low plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C]), and essential hypertension (HTN). (basicmedicalkey.com)
  • Concern regarding "overweight" and "obesity" is reflected in a diverse range of policy measures aimed at helping individuals reduce their body mass index (BMI) 1 . (biomedcentral.com)
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, hypertension followed by obesity was the commonly known cardiometabolic risk factors associated with the general adult population [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • This has led to an increasing evidence for abdominal obesity indices such as waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as predictors of CVD [ 16 , 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The application of WHtR provides an alternative anthropometric index of central obesity that avoids the limitations of WC because the inclusion of height into the index enhances the avoidance of any potential confounding of cardiometabolic risk by height [ 19 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Dietary inflammatory index and anthropometric measures of obesity in a population sample at high cardiovascular risk from the PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterránea) trial. (upf.edu)
  • BACKGROUND AND AIM: We tested the hypothesis that an intervention with a Mediterranean diet (MeDiet) could mitigate the well-known harmful effects of abdominal obesity on cardiovascular health. (upf.edu)
  • Metabolic syndrome is characterized by dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, elevated blood pressure, and abdominal obesity 7) . (e-apem.org)
  • While abdominal obesity is strongly associated with pro-inflammatory cytokines and hormones that result in insulin resistance, and now high levels of visceral fat add to these conditions. (healthvoice360.com)
  • The aim of this work was to assess the prevalence of overweight, obesity, abdominal-obesity and short stature among Rosario (Argentina) adult population. (isciii.es)
  • Multivariate analysis showed that the prevalence of overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity increased according the age and abdominal obesity decreased with high physical activity in men. (isciii.es)
  • In women prevalence of overweight/obesity, and abdominal obesity increased with age, marital status (married or coupled), presence of at least one child at home and low educational level. (isciii.es)
  • 0.001) and was related with age, overweight and abdominal obesity. (isciii.es)
  • Methods A total of 51 Spanish girls (age 7-16 years) with abdominal obesity underwent 8 weeks of a multidisciplinary intervention for weight loss. (unav.edu)
  • 26 120 180 ] Body mass index (BMI) has been widely used to indicate the level of obesity, though recent studies have found that abdominal or visceral adiposity (vs subcutaneous), as reflected in the waist-to-hip ratio or waist circumference, is a strong criteria for predicting the risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • Though the diagnostic criteria for MetS has been variably defined in the literature, most definitions now include the presence of at least three of the following: Abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, elevated fasting plasma glucose, high serum triglycerides, and low high-density lipoprotein levels. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • These conditions include excess abdominal obesity, hypertension, high fasting glucose, and abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) levels, and metabolic syndrome is diagnosed when a patient has 3 or more of those conditions. (kjccm.org)
  • The optimum cut-off range of WrC to identify individuals at increased cardiometabolic risk was 17.5 to -17.8 cm for men and 16.0 to 16.7 cm for women while that of WHtR was 0.52 to 0.61 for men and 0.53 to 0.59 for women. (hindawi.com)
  • A study among urban and rural settlers in a Ghanaian population found an increased cardiometabolic risk factors among urban settlers due to their increased sedentary and unhealthy dietary habits [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Our understanding of the mechanisms by which this increased cardiometabolic risk occurs, however, is incomplete. (nature.com)
  • to identify cut-off points for waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) with better sensitivity, specificity and accuracy to distinguish overweight elderly people by sex, using three body mass index criteria as anthropometric references. (scielosp.org)
  • Different anthropometric measurements are used in clinical practice and in epidemiological studies to assess body adiposity, owing to their practicality and low cost, such as WC, BMI and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). (scielosp.org)
  • METHODS: Among 28,934 Mexican adults without chronic disease and not taking lipid-lowering therapy, we examine the cross-sectional relevance of body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and hip circumference (HC) to NMR-measured metabolic biomarkers. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Waist-to-height ratio, triglycerides/glucose index, and triglycerides-to-HDL-C ratio were determined according to standard protocols. (elsevier.es)
  • The areas under the receiver operational characteristic curves ware similar between waist-to-height ratio and biochemical markers. (elsevier.es)
  • Established indices of adiposity include BMI, waist circumference (WC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR). (pace-cme.org)
  • Fat oxidation can be assessed clinically by measuring respiratory quotient (RQ), which is the ratio of the carbon dioxide expired to the oxygen consumed during indirect calorimetry. (frontiersin.org)
  • The primary outcome measure is the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This new ability to measure both plasma glucose and insulin concentration allowed the development of oral glucose tolerance testing ( 7 ) and the glucose clamp techniques ( 8 ). (basicmedicalkey.com)
  • According to the NCEP ATP III MetS is defined as the presence of three or more of any of the following criteria in an individual: high waist circumference (WC), elevated fasting glucose (GLU), low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), elevated triglycerides (TG) and elevated blood pressure (BP)[ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Multiple linear regressions examined associations of self-reported context-specific sitting time (occupational, transportation, TV-viewing and leisure-time computer use) with a clustered cardiometabolic risk score (CMR) and with individual cardiometabolic risk biomarkers (waist circumference, BMI, resting blood pressure, triglycerides, HDL- and LDL-cholesterol, and fasting and 2-h post-load plasma glucose). (biomedcentral.com)
  • MVPA time and walking time per week were used as physical activity variables and blood pressure, waist circumference, glucose, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride levels were analyzed as metabolic syndrome components. (kjccm.org)
  • Accordingly, reducing time spent in sedentary behaviours has the potential to improve cardiometabolic health, and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease. (biomedcentral.com)
  • High volumes of sitting time are associated with an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and with adverse cardiometabolic risk profiles. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Identification of the sex difference in SAD is crucial for better understanding heath disparities in cardiometabolic outcomes among men and women and improving health care for both sexes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Randomized controlled clinical trials indicate that a HAES approach is associated with statistically and clinically relevant improvements in physiological measures (e.g., blood pressure, blood lipids), health behaviors (e.g., eating and activity habits, dietary quality), and psychosocial outcomes (such as self-esteem and body image), and that HAES achieves these health outcomes more successfully than weight loss treatment and without the contraindications associated with a weight focus. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This paper advances the understanding of the nexus between place, health and SES by providing an objective spatially informed SES measure for testing health outcomes and reported a robust association between RLF and several health measures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sociodemographic factors (e.g., age, sex, and education level), cardiometabolic factors (e.g., dyslipidemia and hypertension), and behavioral factors (e.g., smoking habits and physical activity) associated with prediabetes have been identified in previous studies [ 11 − 14 ]. (ophrp.org)
  • Adiposity and NMR-measured lipid and metabolic biomarkers among 30,000 Mexican adults. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Confounder-adjusted associations between each adiposity measure and NMR biomarkers are estimated before and after mutual adjustment for other adiposity measures. (ox.ac.uk)
  • RESULTS: Markers of general (ie, BMI), abdominal (ie, WC and WHR) and gluteo-femoral (ie, HC) adiposity all display similar and strong associations across the NMR-platform of biomarkers, particularly for biomarkers that increase cardiometabolic risk. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We examined associations of sitting time in four contexts with cardiometabolic risk biomarkers in Australian adults. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Higher context-specific sitting times tended to be detrimentally associated, albeit modestly, with CMR and several cardiometabolic risk biomarkers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) is an anthropometric index associated with visceral adiposity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It remains relatively unknown whether SAD, as a manifest measure of visceral adiposity, differs by sex in the general population and in the subgroups defined by socio-economic characteristics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the last years, novel indices of adiposity have been introduced that are also easy to measure and calculate, but better reflect the body fat distribution and total fat mass than the traditional indices. (pace-cme.org)
  • These measures were used to calculate the different indices of adiposity. (pace-cme.org)
  • Blood pressure, anthropometrics, and biochemical indices were measured. (hindawi.com)
  • In-utero hyperglycemia exposure influences later cardiometabolic risk, although few studies include women with pre-existing type 2 diabetes (T2D) or assess maternal body mass index (BMI) as a potential confounder. (nature.com)
  • Aging is associated with changes in body composition, revealed by reduction in lean mass, increase in fat mass and redistribution of these tissues in the body, with greater accumulation of intra-abdominal and intramuscular fat. (scielosp.org)
  • Today, it is well known that the metabolic risk related to fat accumulation is strongly dependent on its distribution. (highwire.org)
  • This is an interesting measure to keep an eye on, because chronic low-grade inflammation plays a key role in several chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease. (nourishedbyscience.com)
  • Greater maternal antenatal BMI was associated with increased anthropometric measures in offspring independent of maternal glycemic status. (nature.com)
  • Objective-- To investigate the associations between long work hours and adiposity measures in police officers. (cdc.gov)
  • Adiposity measures were not associated with work hours among women on any shift. (cdc.gov)
  • it provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal's impact. (elsevier.es)
  • The additional ability of MRI to also measure muscle volumes, muscle AT infiltration and ectopic fat, in combination with rapid scanning protocols and efficient image analysis tools, makes quantitative MRI a powerful tool for advanced body composition assessment. (highwire.org)
  • Telomere length was measured using a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. (unav.edu)
  • The main outcome was LBD, including osteopenia and osteoporosis, based on bone mineral density measured using quantitative computed tomography of the lumbar spine (L1-2). (jpmph.org)
  • This is because RFM not only correlates strongly with HF risk, but can also be calculated using a relatively simple formula*, requiring only height and waist circumference-both of which could be determined using a measuring tape. (pace-cme.org)
  • 95%). Height and weight were measured, body mass index (BMI), fat free mass (FFM), total body water (TBW), body fat mass (BFM), percentage of body fat (%BF), skeletal muscle mass (SMM), FFM of both upper limbs and lower limbs and FFM of trunk were estimated according to In-body 270. (preprints.org)
  • Android fat mass (kg), gynoid fat mass (kg), and skeletal muscle index (SMI) calculated as appendicular non-fat mass (kg) divided by height squared (m 2 ), were measured using whole body DXA. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Anthropometry was composed of body weight (kg), height (m), body mass index (BMI = kg/m 2 ) and waist circumference (cm). (bvsalud.org)
  • Anthropometric screenings included measurement of height, weight, waist circumference and body mass index (BMI). (biomedcentral.com)
  • All participants underwent an indirect calorimetry to measure the respiratory quotient. (frontiersin.org)
  • Body composition was measured by both dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and bioelectrical impedance (BIA) methods. (frontiersin.org)
  • 14 ], smoking and alcohol consumption were significantly associated with prediabetes in males, while poor dietary habits were strongly associated with prediabetes in females. (ophrp.org)
  • Similarly, his waist circumference is in what I would call the optimal range. (nourishedbyscience.com)
  • Methodological issues notwithstanding, these findings may assist in identifying priorities for sitting-reduction initiatives, in order to achieve optimal cardiometabolic health benefits. (biomedcentral.com)
  • From these results, farmers can utilize accurate measures of fat which will enhance nutritional and management practices. (preprints.org)
  • Results showed that RFM was most strongly associated with incident HF risk. (pace-cme.org)
  • Future research should assess whether childhood anthropometric differences influence lifetime cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental risk. (nature.com)
  • Associations for general and abdominal adiposity are fairly independent of each other but, given general and abdominal adiposity, higher gluteo-femoral adiposity is associated with a strongly favourable cardiometabolic lipid profile. (ox.ac.uk)
  • ANOVA/ANCOVA were used to investigate associations between ACEs and sleep measures. (cdc.gov)
  • Indivíduos com obesidade abdominal apresentaram maiores valores de peso corporal, estatura, índice de massa corporal e comportamento sedentário do que indivíduos eutróficos. (bvsalud.org)
  • Higher BMIs strongly predict type 2 diabetes risk as excessive weight strains the metabolic system. (sdgln.com)
  • Maternal T2D was no longer associated with greater child mean skinfolds ( p = 0.14) or waist circumference ( p = 0.18) after adjustment for maternal BMI. (nature.com)
  • In contrast, RFM, WHR and BMI were more strongly associated with HFrEF in men than in women (P for interaction= 0.07, 0.06 and 0.09, respectively). (pace-cme.org)
  • The measures used to calculate CMR were collected via clinic visits from a population-based cohort study. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Well-being has been strongly linked to many important life events ranging from physical and psychological health to family and social relationships to work and activity patterns. (naditarangini.com)
  • Based on its relationship to health, as well as its reliability, validity, and feasibility, a timed or progressive shuttle run, such as the 20-meter shuttle run, is appropriate for measuring cardiorespiratory endurance in youth. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Serum omega-3 fatty acid levels were measured with the gas chromatography method. (frontiersin.org)