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AdultsObesityImportance of using waist circumfRatioMeasure waist circumferenceCardiovascular diseaseAmong obeseMETHODSMeasurementsLevels in obeseNeck circumferenceMeasurementAdipose-tissueFatnessParticipantsDiabeticType 2 DiabetDiabetes29.9Abdominal fatRiskCoronaryWeightPhenotypeCorrelationLipidInsulinWomenSignificantly0.01CommonlyHighYoungerBody fatRisksAdolescentsAdult subjectsGroupMedicallyHealthyLeanHypertensionPeopleHigherContrastYearsPatients
Adults14
  • Kovalskys stated that the 420-min average sitting time is worrying in a population such as the one studied, in which 60% of adults are obese and there are high rates of cardiometabolic risk factors. (medscape.com)
  • 1. Measuring the waist circumference of all adults. (who.int)
  • Snowdon critiques the 'wild predictions' of 'campaigners' that 75% of UK adults will be overweight or obese by 2030. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • By the age of 65, some 80% of UK adults currently become overweight, and almost 40% are obese. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • The present work demonstrates that the salivary sIgA increases temporally as a response to the graded exercise test in obese adults. (wku.edu)
  • 23 kg/m2 were taken as cases and 41 age and sex matched healthy non-obese adults with Body Mass Index (scirp.org)
  • People are becoming obese at younger ages, and more than one-third of adults nationwide are now obese. (nih.gov)
  • Obesity is a major US public health issue, with more than two-thirds of American adults considered overweight or obese. (radiologytoday.net)
  • More than 36 percent of adults in the state are obese - a number that's tripled since 1990. (iowaclinic.com)
  • The Consortium's first study iii by Dr. David Baer, USDA, found that daily consumption of whey protein, but not soy protein, led to lower body weight, body fat and waist circumference compared to carbohydrates in free-living overweight and obese adults. (eurekalert.org)
  • Aetna considers up to a combined limit of 26 individual or group visits by any recognized provider per 12-month period as medically necessary for weight reduction counseling in adults who are obese (as defined by BMI greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2 Footnotes ** ). (aetna.com)
  • Aetna considers the FDA-cleared weight reduction device, Plenity (Gelesis, Inc.), as medically necessary to aid in weight management in overweight and obese adults with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25-40 kg/m 2 , when used in conjunction with diet and exercise. (aetna.com)
  • By the age of 65 many adults, around 80%, are carrying excess weight and many are in the obese category. (spiritualmediablog.com)
  • Simple anthropometric measurements such as body mass index and waist circumference have been used to investigate the association between adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors in adults 7 . (bvsalud.org)
Obesity25
  • Central overweight and obesity were indicators for central fatness for both overweight boys and girls and for obese girls except in age group 6.5 ± 1 years. (who.int)
  • Central fatness, mostly intra-abdominal circumference is a better index of android fat, is medically more important than (abdominal) obesity than waist-to-hip ratio subcutaneous fat in the trunk. (who.int)
  • According to the 2005 IDF criteria, subsequently revised in 2009, abdominal obesity is identified as the waist circumference of ≥80 cm in women and ≥94 cm in men. (hindawi.com)
  • Evidence from the conducted studies has revealed that abdominal obesity (assessed based on the waist circumference) plays a very important role in the development of metabolic disorders and in the assessment of cardiovascular risk. (hindawi.com)
  • Adiponectin plasma levels and adipose-tissue gene expression were significantly lower in obese subjects and inversely correlated with obesity-associated variables, including high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). (diabetesjournals.org)
  • It suggested that the health risks and costs to healthcare of obesity have been over-stated, and that obese people dying younger would actually help. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Waist circumference (alone) predicts total body fat, and multiple medical consequences of obesity consistently better than BMI. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • And worse, increasing body fat (bigger waists) but loss of muscle ('sarcopenic obesity') heralds more diabetes, with its complications, and more physical disability, falls and fractured hips in older people. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • In addition, abdominal obesity was noted if waist circumference was 35 inches or more at the navel. (worldhealth.net)
  • The heart failure risk potentially attributed to obesity as measured by BMI or waist circumference was calculated after adjusting for multiple other health and lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, including other conditions such as Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, hypertension (or high blood pressure), kidney function, inflammation, left ventricular hypertrophy and prior heart attack. (worldhealth.net)
  • To identify abdominal obesity, BMI monitoring must be followed by waist circumference measurement. (gurze.com)
  • More and more doctors prefer to use waist circumference measurements to determine the forms of obesity. (gurze.com)
  • The differentiation ratio between android obesity and gynoid obesity can also be made by measuring the ratio of waist to hip circumference. (gurze.com)
  • Partial correlation coefficients (r) were calculated to compare the relationship of change in S(I) from baseline to 5 years later (DeltaS(I)) with baseline waist circumference (waist) as a measure of abdominal obesity and body mass index (BMI) as a measure of overall obesity. (nih.gov)
  • 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)
  • Body mass index (BMI) and central obesity (calculated from waist circumference) were based on measured data. (lu.se)
  • Of the study population, 16% were obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ) and 40% had central obesity. (lu.se)
  • The results show that 29.2 and 33.3% of the subjects were having central obesity, as measured by waist circumference and waist to hip ratio, respectively. (scialert.net)
  • I think our findings really suggest that if we don't measure obesity duration in addition to BMI and waist circumference, we may be underestimating the health risks of obesity," Reis says. (nih.gov)
  • The research team also found that abdominal obesity, associated with high waist circumference, at baseline is a risk factor that affects women more than men. (nih.gov)
  • If your BMI is over 40, or it's 35 or more and you have an obesity-related condition, you're considered morbidly obese. (iowaclinic.com)
  • In an attempt to advance our knowledge of the gut-microbiome-brain axis in the obese phenotype, we thoroughly characterized the gut microbiome signatures of obesity in a well-phenotyped Italian female cohort from the NeuroFAST and MyNewGut EU FP7 projects. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Two common methods to assess the degree of obesity are measuring waist circumference, a surrogate for abdominal fat, and calculating the body mass index (BMI). (psychiatrist.com)
  • It has proved beneficial to measure the waist circumference for a better understanding of the consequences of obesity. (spiritualmediablog.com)
  • Abdominal adiposity is a risk factor for obesity-related complications, and there is increasing evidence that abdominal adiposity may be a contributing factor to complications not related to adiposity at the waist (4,5). (cdc.gov)
Importance of using waist circumf1
  • These observations reinforce the with less favourable patterns of serum importance of using waist circumference in lipoprotein concentrations, increased blood clinical practice [ 10 ]. (who.int)
Ratio12
Measure waist circumference2
Cardiovascular disease2
  • Ideally, you'll also want to consider your waist circumference as well as any lifestyle or genetic risk factors for cardiovascular disease. (livescience.com)
  • Recently, studies in children and teenagers seem to confirm the usefulness of waist circumference as an appropriate indicator of metabolic and cardiovascular risk 8-10 as it has a greater correlation with central adiposity, and is therefore considered an important factor in the evolution of cardiovascular disease 11 . (bvsalud.org)
Among obese2
  • Among non-diabetics, waist circumference was a strong predictor of declining S(I) among lean subjects, a modest predictor among overweight subjects, but was not predictive among obese individuals. (nih.gov)
  • Subsequent studies should involve frequent check-ins to monitor the development of dementia and potentially find common symptoms or factors among obese participants. (nih.gov)
METHODS3
  • Methods: Twenty overweight/obese volunteer employees were recruited by convenience sampling. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: A total of 81 overweight and obese women with type 2 diabetes, who usually consumed DBs in their diet, were asked to either substitute water for DBs or continue drinking DBs five times per week after lunch for 24 weeks (DBs group) during a weight loss program. (fabresearch.org)
  • If you have a high BMI, your doctor may use one or more other methods to help further assess whether you are overweight or obese. (searhc.org)
Measurements6
  • ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study of 1283 healthy children (681 boys, 602 girls) aged 6-11 years tested the degree of correlation between waist circumference measurements and adiposity. (who.int)
  • However, degree of correlation between waist circum- studies on the efficacy of anthropometric ference measurements of a sample of techniques for identifying children with Egyptian schoolchildren with their adipo- high central adiposity are scare. (who.int)
  • There is a sity (whether total or central), and to quan- suggestion that waist circumference alone tify the association of waist circumference may be a more useful and accurate tool in measurements with age and degree of BMI children than DXA etc. [ 6 ]. (who.int)
  • Baseline measurements, including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference, were collected when the participants enrolled. (nih.gov)
  • However, the same does not appear to be happening in terms of waist measurements which continues to increase throughout the years and up until people reach their seventies. (spiritualmediablog.com)
  • Waist circumference (WC) measurements were carried out in duplicate and the arithmetic mean was calculated. (bvsalud.org)
Levels in obese2
  • In conclusion, our data suggest a transcriptional mechanism leading to decreased adiponectin plasma levels in obese women and demonstrate that low levels of adiponectin are associated with higher levels of hs-CRP and IL-6, two inflammatory mediators and markers of increased cardiovascular risk. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • Determine the effect of a maximal graded exercise test on the saliva sIgA levels in obese adult subjects. (wku.edu)
Neck circumference4
  • It used three indicators of excess weight: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and neck circumference. (medscape.com)
  • Sitting for more than 8 hours increased the chances of excess weight by 10% when measured by BMI and by 13% when neck circumference was used. (medscape.com)
  • Neck circumference is a more recent measurement of detection and it is less studied, but it is a valid indicator, with good sensitivity and advantages over others, such as ease of measurement and lack of variation over time. (medscape.com)
  • According to the results of this study, measuring neck circumference may be the most sensitive method of the three. (medscape.com)
Measurement5
  • A waist measurement of more than 35 inches in women and more than 40 inches in men is considered high. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Recently, medical experts have emphasised the importance of waist-measurement as an independent predictor of ill-health. (annecollins.com)
  • The tape should be snug but should not compress the skin, and the waist circumference measurement should be made at the end of a normal breath following exhalation. (clarksnutrition.com)
  • 1995) Direct measurement of high-density lipoprotein in cho-lesterol in serum with polyethylene GLYCOL-modified en-zymes and sulfated α-Cyclodextrin. (scirp.org)
  • All men underwent baseline computed tomography imaging of fat deposition, bioelectric impedance analysis, and measurement of BMI and waist circumference. (renalandurologynews.com)
Adipose-tissue1
Fatness1
  • The ability of simple anthropometric add valuable comparative data to BMI techniques to correctly measure central data in assessment of central fatness in adiposity needs to be assessed because overweight and obese children. (who.int)
Participants5
  • Every 2 to 5 years, the participants were examined to determine if and when they became obese and how long they stayed obese. (nih.gov)
  • About 40% of participants became obese during the study. (nih.gov)
  • The researchers found that participants who had a BMI corresponding with overweight or obese were more likely to develop dementia. (nih.gov)
  • In fact, pericardial fat was associated with new heart failure cases regardless of whether the participants were lean, overweight, or obese. (worldhealth.net)
  • Obese participants had significantly increased values of respiratory disturbance index (16.4 vs 9.3 n°/h) and apnea-hypopnea index (14.2 vs 5.6 n°/h). (medscape.com)
Diabetic1
  • This study intends to find the occurrence of microal-buminuria in non-diabetic normotensive obese individuals. (scirp.org)
Type 2 Diabet1
  • CONCLUSION: Replacement of DBs with water after the main meal in obese adult women with type 2 diabetes may lead to more weight reduction during a weight loss program. (fabresearch.org)
Diabetes10
  • The aim of our study was to demonstrate a correlation between waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) in patients with metabolic syndrome in relation to hypertension, lipid disorders, such as atherogenic dyslipidaemia, and carbohydrate disorders, such as impaired fasting glucose or diabetes mellitus type 2. (hindawi.com)
  • According to the International Diabetes Federation (2), waist circumference should not exceed 94 cm in men and 80 cm in women. (gurze.com)
  • Waist circumference should be considered, in addition to BMI, when identifying individuals at high risk of diabetes or the insulin resistance syndrome. (nih.gov)
  • Conclusion: Microalbuminuria may not be present in obese patients without diabetes and/hypertension. (scirp.org)
  • Cluster 1 is referred to as Severe Insulin Deficient Diabetes (SIDD), which was present in 26.2% of patients and is characterised by the lowest body weight and waist circumference, as well as the lowest insulin reserve as measured by C-peptide levels. (ndtv.com)
  • Cluster 2 is a novel cluster described for first time and is referred to as Insulin Resistant Obese Diabetes (IROD). (ndtv.com)
  • Increased body fat and the problem of expanding waists is leading to more health problems, more people suffering from diabetes and other complications. (spiritualmediablog.com)
  • Circumference With Hypertension and Diabetes in African American Women, South Carolina, 2007-2009. (cdc.gov)
  • After controlling for all variables, waist circumference was independently associated with a 5-fold risk in hypertension and diabetes in African American women. (cdc.gov)
  • We hypothesize that the risk of hypertension and diabetes would be higher for women with larger waist circumference, independent of sociodemographic and health-related variables. (cdc.gov)
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Abdominal fat1
Risk11
  • We therefore believed that an exami- lar risk [ 3 ] and increased risk of metabolic nation of waist circumference in a group complications [ 4 ]. (who.int)
  • The authors expected to find a linear association with risk for being overweight or obese after 4 hours, but they did not find one. (medscape.com)
  • The Latin American study tried to establish a sitting cutoff time after which the risk of becoming overweight or obese increases. (medscape.com)
  • It is possible to be at increased risk for chronic disease without being overweight or obese as defined by BMI standards. (confex.com)
  • The comments come after a new study found that even if people have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, being overweight or obese still carries a higher risk of coronary heart disease, experts found. (chronicle.gi)
  • After adjusting for a number of factors, the researchers found that compared to the healthy normal weight group, those classed as unhealthy had more than double the risk of coronary heart disease whether they were normal weight, overweight or obese. (chronicle.gi)
  • And even overweight and obese people who were deemed "healthy" by their metabolic markers carried a higher risk. (chronicle.gi)
  • When compared to those who are of a healthy weight, being classed as healthy but overweight carries a 26% increased risk of coronary heart disease and being obese carries a 28% increased risk, according to the new study published in European Heart Journal. (chronicle.gi)
  • Effects of Aerobic Training, Resistance Training, or Both on Percentage Body Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Obese Adolescents: The Healthy Eating Aerobic and Resistance Training in Youth Randomized Clinical Trial. (ironmagazine.com)
  • How long a young adult is obese may affect that person's heart disease risk in middle age, according to new research. (nih.gov)
  • however, few studies have examined the association between waist circumference and risk factors in African Americans (9,12,13). (cdc.gov)
Coronary2
  • Over 38% of those who were obese for more than 20 years developed coronary artery calcification. (nih.gov)
  • In contrast, only about 25% of those who never became obese developed coronary artery calcification. (nih.gov)
Weight14
  • To examine whether the effect of eating speed on energy intake is the same in normal-weight and overweight/obese subjects. (nih.gov)
  • Eating slowly significantly lowered meal energy intake in the normal-weight but not in the overweight/obese group. (nih.gov)
  • Instead of just relying on weight and BMI to assess body fat content, waist circumference accounts for where fat is located on your body. (healthline.com)
  • The waist-DeltaS(I) relationship differed across the levels of baseline BMI, being significant only in normal weight (r = -0.21) and overweight subjects (r = -0.16), but not in obese subjects. (nih.gov)
  • Lead author Dr Camille Lassale said: "Our findings suggest that if a patient is overweight or obese, all efforts should be made to help them get back to a healthy weight, regardless of other factors. (chronicle.gi)
  • Pooler and colleagues studied CSE-MRI in 50 obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery for weight loss. (radiologytoday.net)
  • They also compared liver fat changes as determined by PDFF with changes in body mass index (BMI), weight, and waist circumference. (radiologytoday.net)
  • A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify RCTs that investigated WP (concentrate, isolate, or hydrolystate) and body weight, body mass index (BMI), body fat,lean body mass (LBM), fat-free mass (FFM), and waist circumference. (eurekalert.org)
  • Fecal samples were collected from 63 overweight/obese and 37 normal-weight women and analyzed via a multi-omics approach combining 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and lipidomics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A study in 111 people demonstrated that those who drank 3 cups of black tea daily for three months lost more weight and had greater reductions in waist circumference compared to a control group ( 11 ). (healthline.com)
  • Have you ever been frustrated by not knowing how to help your obese patients control their appetite and weight? (psychiatrist.com)
  • These individuals had the highest body weight and waist circumference and insulin secretion and insulin resistance were also the highest for this cluster. (ndtv.com)
  • Body weight and waist circumference were intermediate between SIDD and IROD. (ndtv.com)
  • Although the measure isn't a perfect indicator of a person's overall health, it's an easy way for most people to determine whether they are underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. (livescience.com)
Phenotype2
  • This study aims to determine the association of LEPR gene polymorphisms, rs1137100 and rs1137101, on phenotype and leptin level between obese and control groups in Yogyakarta population. (ajol.info)
  • By finding peculiar gut microbiome profiles associated with eating patterns, we laid the foundation for elucidating gut-brain axis communication in the obese phenotype. (biomedcentral.com)
Correlation2
  • For both sexes a highly positive correlation was found between waist circumference and BMI, percentage of body fat, subscapular and suprailiac skinfold thicknesses, and the sum of skinfold measures. (who.int)
  • The aim of our study was to demonstrate a correlation between waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) in patients with metabolic syndrome in relation with hypertension, lipid disorders, and carbohydrate disorders. (hindawi.com)
Lipid1
  • However, there was no significant time × group interaction for waist circumference, lipid profiles and HbA1c within both groups over the 24-week period. (fabresearch.org)
Insulin1
  • Over time, obese people become resistant to insulin and can no longer regulate their blood sugar. (iowaclinic.com)
Women6
  • 2007) Investigation of microalbuminuria in nondia-betic, normotensive obese women. (scirp.org)
  • In particular, obese women with uncontrolled eating behavior were mostly characterized by low-diversity microbial steady states, with few and poorly interconnected species (e.g. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 53% of African American women are obese. (cdc.gov)
  • Of the approximately 44% of African American women who are hypertensive, more than 87% are overweight or obese. (cdc.gov)
  • Fifty- three percent of African American women are obese (2). (cdc.gov)
  • American women are hypertensive (2), and of these, more than 87% are overweight or obese (1). (cdc.gov)
Significantly1
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Commonly1
  • Once obese, people commonly experience feelings of shame, self-reproach and inadequacy. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
High4
  • Thus athletes with a high proportion of muscle mass may be mildly obese even though they are in excellent physical health. (annecollins.com)
  • A high waist circumference is linked to a higher likelihood of developing heart disease, even in people with a "normal" BMI. (healthline.com)
  • high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low levels of HDL cholesterol or an "elevated" waist circumference. (chronicle.gi)
  • In a group and prednisolone) chemotherapy, central nervous system of obese school children from South Korea, 30% had an- prophylaxis with cytarabine, and high-dose methotrexate. (cdc.gov)
Younger2
  • There is even a suggestion that those obese people dying younger is not necessarily a bad thing. (spiritualmediablog.com)
  • The suggestion put forward by Snowdon and others, that obese people die younger and therefore this is saving money is farcical. (spiritualmediablog.com)
Body fat5
  • Aerobic training, resistance training, and their combination decreased percentage body fat in obese adolescents", the Canadians conclude. (ironmagazine.com)
  • Combined aerobic and resistance exercise training tended to be superior to aerobic training alone in decreasing percentage body fat, waist circumference, and BMI. (ironmagazine.com)
  • To determine the effects of aerobic training, resistance training, and combined training on percentage body fat in overweight and obese adolescents. (ironmagazine.com)
  • Being obese means more than having too much body fat. (iowaclinic.com)
  • According to the NHLBI, the measure often mistakenly classifies heavily muscled athletes as obese, and it can underestimate body fat in elderly or ill people who have lost muscle mass. (livescience.com)
Risks2
Adolescents1
Adult subjects1
  • We examined two polymorphisms of LEPR gene, rs1137100 (K109R) and rs1137101 (Q223R) in 110 subjects consisting of 55 obese and 55 healthy adult subjects as controls from Yogyakarta. (ajol.info)
Group4
  • The active group members' fat loss was mainly in the waist region, as the figure above shows. (ironmagazine.com)
  • Waist circumference changes were -0.2 (95% CI, -1.7 to 1.2) cm in the control group, -3.0 (95% CI, -4.4 to -1.6) cm in the aerobic group (P? (ironmagazine.com)
  • The frequency of R103R homozygote in obese group was higher than in the control group, whereas Q223Q homozygote in obese group was lower than in the control group. (ajol.info)
  • 30 kg/m 2 ) and obese group (BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 ). (medscape.com)
Medically1
  • The number of medically necessary visits for obese children are left to the discretion of the member's physician. (aetna.com)
Healthy3
  • Dr Ioanna Tzoulaki, from Imperial's School of Public Health, added: "I think there is no longer this concept of healthy obese. (chronicle.gi)
  • The number of overweight/obese employees with healthy waist circumferences increased from 3 to 8 post-intervention. (cdc.gov)
  • A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy, a BMI above 25 is overweight, and a BMI greater than 30 is obese. (searhc.org)
Lean1
  • 500 persons, 30% of obese persons and 11% of lean persons The Patient had antibodies to Adv 36 ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Hypertension1
People3
  • Conversely, people with a BMI classified as obese who have a lower waist circumference are less likely to have heart disease. (healthline.com)
  • H ave you ever wondered why people allow themselves to become obese? (psychiatrist.com)
  • Obese people will likely suffer from all kinds of physical difficulties, from asthma, arthritis, breathlessness, fatigue and all kinds of aches and pains including back problems. (spiritualmediablog.com)
Higher1
Contrast1
  • Some recent surveys in UK and elsewhere have suggested modest reductions in the rampant rise in BMI, but In contrast, waists are still growing at around 8-10cm in each 10 years, right up into people's 70s. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Years1
  • Eleven obese male subjects (Age 31± 1.53 years) were recruited. (wku.edu)
Patients2