CircumferenceLevels of adiposityObeseAbdominalRatioGeneral adiposityHigher adiposityExcess adiposityCardiometabolic risk factorsLipid accumulation productCardiorespiratory fitnessDetrimental effectDefinition of obesity basedAdolescentsMeasurementsAnthropometricRiskStandard deviationVisceral fatTrunkAdipose tissueMortalityCorrelationSignificantlyAssociated inflammatoryCentralMethodsChronicMeasuresDifferencesMetabolicTotalAdultsQuintileCardiovascular diseaseBody fat percentage andOnsetEquationIndicatorPredictorHighIncreasesAnalysesWomenRelationship
Circumference9
- 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)
- 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 results suggest that BMI is an adequate measure of cancer risk from excess weight, and there is no advantage in using more complicated or expensive measures such as waist circumference or body fat percentage. (eurekalert.org)
- Multiple linear regression was used to estimate the effects on systolic blood pressure (SBP) of general adiposity [e.g. body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, height-adjusted weight] vs central adiposity [e.g. waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), waist-hip ratio (WHR)], before and after adjustment for each other. (ox.ac.uk)
- Study participants had their body fat percentage, waist circumference and BMI measured and were physiologically assessed for hot flashes by use of a monitor that measured skin conductance. (health.am)
- Our study showed that higher adiposity, BMI and waist circumference were associated with fewer physiologically-assessed hot flashes among older postmenopausal women with hot flashes ," said Thurston. (health.am)
- This association persisted after adjustment for potential confounders and was consistent across a number of anthropometric measurements including: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist to hip ratio and body fat percentage. (biomedcentral.com)
- There was an indication of positive association between central adiposity, as reflected by waist circumference (HRper 1-SD increase = 1.08, 95% CI: 1.00-1.17) and waist to hip ratio (HRper 1-SD increase = 1.13, 95% CI: 1.01-1.26), and endometrial cancer risk after accounting for BMI. (ox.ac.uk)
- Body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio, and waist circumference are commonly used measures for estimating abdominal adiposity (6,7). (cdc.gov)
Levels of adiposity2
- They found that women aged 20-44 who drank two or three cups of coffee per day had the lowest levels of adiposity, 3.4% lower than people who did not consume coffee. (prohealth.com)
- Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have been shown to display high levels of adiposity and a unique body shape. (aahd.us)
Obese7
- 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)
- Conclusions Serum leptin could be used as a surrogate convenient marker of adiposity in overweight/obese adolescent boys with T1D, equivalent to BMI Z-score or BMI%95. (bmj.com)
- Whether serum adipokines could be used as convenient, surrogate markers of adiposity in obese/overweight adolescents with T1D is not known. (bmj.com)
- This study aimed to determine the effects of fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) on steatohepatitis and visceral adiposity in an obese mouse model of NASH. (biomedcentral.com)
- The study found a significant negative correlation between body fat percentage and VAT in middle-aged obese men. (cheapcollegeessays.com)
- Based on the data analysis, the study concluded that body fat percentage and fat distribution significantly impact the ventilatory anaerobic threshold in middle-aged obese men. (cheapcollegeessays.com)
- Metabolically-obese, normal-weight (MONW) individuals are not obese in terms of weight and height but have a number of obesity-related features (e.g. greater visceral adiposity, insulin resistance, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease). (biomedcentral.com)
Abdominal5
- Researchers examined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, organised by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States and looked at the relationship between cups of coffee drunk per day, and both total body fat percentage and abdominal or 'trunk' fat (adiposity). (prohealth.com)
- But abdominal adiposity has been shown to be more closely linked with adverse metabolic consequences and has been suggested to precede insulin resistance [ 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
- Less is known concerning the performance of LAP as compared to the measures of abdominal adiposity. (biomedcentral.com)
- However, abdominal adiposity may be more predictive of CVD risk than BMI. (cdc.gov)
- 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)
Ratio6
- Assessment of obesity before old age may be a more accurate representation of adiposity as the ratio of lean to fat mass changes with ageing, 5 resulting in a decreased body mass index. (bmj.com)
- Here, we searched for metabolites and lipoprotein particles associated with fat distribution, measured as waist/hip ratio adjusted for fat mass (WHRadjfatmass), and general adiposity measured as percentage fat mass. (lu.se)
- Increased levels of body fat and in particular central adiposity, measured by the waist-to-hip ratio, has been found to have a highly significant association with myocardial infarction risk . (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- Sarcopenic obesity was defined as the coexistence of low SMI and obesity determined by four patterns of obesity as follows: android to gynoid ratio (A/G ratio), android fat mass or percentage of body fat (%BF) was higher than the sex-specific median, or body mass index (BMI) was equal to or greater than 25 kg/m 2 . (biomedcentral.com)
- average age 56 years) who were cancer-free, to investigate the risk of developing and dying from 24 cancers according to six markers of obesity: BMI, body fat percentage, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio, and waist and hip circumferences. (eurekalert.org)
- Correlations of these markers is explored against three different measures of adiposity - waist to hip ratio, body fat percentage and body mass index. (westminster.ac.uk)
General adiposity1
- CONCLUSION: In adult Chinese, blood pressure is more strongly associated with general adiposity than with central adiposity, and the associations with BMI were about 50% stronger than those observed in Western populations. (ox.ac.uk)
Higher adiposity1
- This suggests that after adjustment for BMI, higher adiposity may have a detrimental effect on survival and that after adjustment for body fat percentage, a lower BMI. (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
Excess adiposity3
- The authors concluded that based on these finding, excess adiposity was a risk factor for reduced cognitive scores and called for strategies to reduce or prevent adiposity as a means of preserving cognitive function in adults. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- This study had two main objectives: To examine the association between body fat distribution and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and liver fat content, and to determine whether the relationship between NAFLD and regional body fat distribution, with respect to liver fat content in youths with excess adiposity, is independent of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and a healthy diet. (unavarra.es)
- These results may have implications for the clinical management of youths with excess adiposity given the high prevalence of NAFLD in children and young adults. (unavarra.es)
Cardiometabolic risk factors1
- RESULTS: Baseline adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors were similar among the 3 treatment arms. (wineinformationcouncil.eu)
Lipid accumulation product1
Cardiorespiratory fitness1
- Most associations were independent of BF% suggesting that the differences in serum metabolites between children are driven by cardiorespiratory fitness and not adiposity. (frontiersin.org)
Detrimental effect1
- Meanwhile, android fat distribution was positively associated with VAT, indicating that central adiposity has a detrimental effect on ventilatory capacity during exercise. (cheapcollegeessays.com)
Definition of obesity based1
- There is a need for an updated definition of obesity based on adiposity, not on body weight. (nih.gov)
Adolescents3
- The percentage of body fat and adiposity may not be associated with caries in the permanent teeth of U.S. children and adolescents, according to a large study. (drbicuspid.com)
- Introduction We aimed to test whether the serum adipokines leptin and adiponectin are more strongly associated with body fat percentage (BF%) than body mass index (BMI) in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and overweight/obesity. (bmj.com)
- Researchers in Georgia and Massachusetts measured the vitamin D status of black and white adolescents in the southeastern United States and the relationship with adiposity. (thecamreport.com)
Measurements5
- 8 Obtaining weight measurements many years before the onset of dementia, as well as other measures of adiposity, would provide stronger evidence of causality between obesity and increased risk of dementia. (bmj.com)
- 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)
- Main measurements were the percentage of liver fat and the diagnosis of steatosis, which were determined by NMR imaging. (wineinformationcouncil.eu)
- Obesity, from objectively body mass index, and bio-electric impedance body fat percentage (BFP) measurements at 11 and 14 years were considered outcomes. (researchsquare.com)
- The availability of a large biobank with blood and urine samples, the comprehensive database of responses to standardized lifestyle and dietary questionnaires, and refined measurements of adiposity from hundreds of women will be of great value for breast cancer research in this population over the next decades. (who.int)
Anthropometric2
- Genome-wide association studies have identified common genetic variants robustly associated with anthropometric indicators of adiposity. (nature.com)
- AROCs of LAP were relatively the same as anthropometric adiposity measures. (biomedcentral.com)
Risk18
- We determined the predictive value of mid-life adiposity, including body mass index and tricep and subscapular skinfold thickness, on the risk of developing dementia in a large multiethnic cohort of men and women followed for an average of 27 years. (bmj.com)
- Recently, we have also shown that coronary artery disease patients with normal BMI and central obesity have the highest mortality risk as compared to other adiposity patterns. (nih.gov)
- Therefore, it is important to recognize these high-risk groups for better adiposity-based risk stratification. (nih.gov)
- The pertinent public health question is whether or not an individual can attenuate the influence of their genetic risk for adiposity by healthy lifestyle behaviours? (nature.com)
- Due to the increasing numbers of Hispanics in the US workforce, their relatively high injury/fatality rates, the increasing prevalence of obesity, and its associated disease and mortality risk, having an indicator of adiposity specific to Hispanics is important in occupational health and clinical practice. (cdc.gov)
- Routine evaluation of an expression of weight not adiposity [ 11 ] regional fat distribution on a wide scale and it provides no information on body fat requires methods that are simpler than distribution, so it can mask true obesity- dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), related risk in children [ 3 ]. (who.int)
- In regression models fully adjusted for age, sex, educational level and cardiovascular risk factors, the total percentage of body fat remained independently associated with reduced cognitive scores. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- To investigate long-term associations of bedtime schedules and bedtimes in childhood with obesity risk and adiposity in later years. (researchsquare.com)
- Obesity increases the risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, regardless of how it is measured, according to a study of more than 400,000 adults in the UK, being presented at The European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, with central fatness (larger waist and hips) and general obesity (body mass index [BMI] and body fat percentage) associated with similar estimates of cancer risk. (eurekalert.org)
- Previous studies on the association of adiposity with endometrial cancer risk have mostly used body mass index (BMI) as the main exposure of interest. (ox.ac.uk)
- Whether more precise measures of body fat, such as body fat percentage and fat mass estimated by bioimpedance analyses, are better indicators of risk than BMI is unknown. (ox.ac.uk)
- These findings suggest that body fat percentage and fat mass are not better indicators of endometrial cancer risk than BMI. (ox.ac.uk)
- Further studies are needed to establish whether central adiposity contributes to risk beyond overall adiposity. (ox.ac.uk)
- The aim of this study was to estimate the associative capacity of visceral adiposity index and dysfunctional adiposity index on cardiometabolic risk in the working population. (jctei.com)
- Adiposity indices VAI and DAI show high associative capacity in cardiometabolic risk, especially in atherogenic dyslipidemia, lipid triad, and hypertriglyceridemic waist in both sexes. (jctei.com)
- Visceral Adiposity Index A reliable indicator of visceral fat function associated with cardiometabolic risk. (jctei.com)
- Reducing obesity is an important preventive measure for postmenopausal breast cancer, but the association between adiposity and breast cancer risk at premenopausal ages is less clear. (who.int)
- In South Africa, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is high (61% in urban women and 48% in rural women), and body composition (percentage of lean tissue vs fat) may have different distributions in black and white women and thus have different associations with breast cancer risk. (who.int)
Standard deviation2
- The authors calculated that for each standard deviation increase in adiposity (9.2% for generalised fat and 36ml of visceral fat), there was a reduction of 0.8 in the DSST score, which was equivalent to 1 year of cognitive ageing. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- data using mean and standard deviation of body weight, is an important measure Percentage regional fat in the paraspinal and for category data by number and of obesity, and a considerable evidence area and around the neck of the left percentage. (who.int)
Visceral fat1
- Analysis of the associations of obesity, percentage of body fat and visceral fat mass with body iron status in 1,493 schoolchildren aged 9-13 years shows that boys and girls with obesity have higher serum ferritin levels and lower transferrin saturation levels than normal-weight children. (nature.com)
Trunk1
- 20kgf had lower total and trunk adiposity. (bvsalud.org)
Adipose tissue3
- The women had a higher percentage of body fat compared to men (35.6% vs 25.1%) although men had a higher mean visceral adipose tissue volume (83.6 vs 64.1 ml). (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- Dysfunctional adiposity index as a marker of adipose tissue morpho-functional abnormalities and metabolic disorders in apparently healthy subjects. (jctei.com)
- In her study, body fat percentage increased significantly after GH cessation, making attention to adipose tissue an important part of ongoing follow-up, she said. (medscape.com)
Mortality4
- This "obesity paradox" led researchers to hypothesize that greater body fat percentage might be independently associated with increased mortality because BMI is an imperfect measure of body fat. (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
- When BMI and body fat percentage were included in the same fully adjusted models, low BMI and high body fat percentage were both associated with increased all-cause mortality," the researchers wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine . (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
- Mortality increased as BMI decreased and body fat percentage increased. (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
- Padwal R, Leslie WD, Lix LM, Majumadar SR. Relationship Among Body Fat Percentage, Body Mass Index, and All-Cause Mortality: A Cohort Study. (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
Correlation2
- Emerging evidence indicates a correlation between increased adiposity and markers of oxidative DNA damage. (westminster.ac.uk)
- The Pearson correlation between BMI and mean body fat percentage was 0.76 in women and 0.63 in men. (endocrinologyadvisor.com)
Significantly1
- Body fat percentage (BF%) was significantly more strongly correlated with leptin than with body mass index Z-score in the overall group. (bmj.com)
Associated inflammatory1
- Using a rat model of prenatal low protein (LP, 8% protein) diet followed by a postnatal high fat energy diet (HE, 45% fat) or low fat normal energy diet (NE, 10% fat) for 12 weeks, we investigated the effect of these diets on adiposity, programming of the offspring ATM phenotype, and the associated inflammatory response. (usda.gov)
Central6
- Healthy lifestyle behaviours appeared to attenuate the genetic influence on changes across age in BMI and central adiposity during mid-adulthood. (nature.com)
- BMI is a adiposity tracks from childhood into poor proxy for central fatness [ 4 ] as it is adulthood [ 5 ]. (who.int)
- However, most of the evidence is based on BMI, and little is known about the association between cancer and other markers of adiposity (eg, central obesity and body fat). (eurekalert.org)
- Blood pressure in relation to general and central adiposity among 500 000 adult Chinese men and women. (ox.ac.uk)
- The role of central adiposity and fat-free mass in endometrial cancer development remains unclear. (ox.ac.uk)
- Specifically, higher body fat percentage and central adiposity are associated with decreased ventilatory capacity during exercise, which may ultimately affect athletic performance. (cheapcollegeessays.com)
Methods1
- A number of methods are available for determining body fat percentage, such as measurement with calipers or through the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis. (wikipedia.org)
Chronic2
- Iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia were more frequent in boys and girls in the highest quartiles of percentage of body fat than in children in the lowest quartile, possibly owing to the chronic inflammation induced by excessive adiposity. (nature.com)
- FOS ameliorates steatohepatitis, visceral adiposity, and chronic inflammation by increasing SCFA production. (biomedcentral.com)
Measures3
- Substantial uncertainty remains, however, about which measures of adiposity most strongly predict blood pressure and whether these associations differ materially between populations. (ox.ac.uk)
- Dr. Natasha M. Appelman-Dijkstra from Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, who conducted a similar study in adult GH-deficient patients, told Reuters Health by email, "More measures on lifestyle advices (for healthy bones and adiposity) should be initiated in these patient groups. (medscape.com)
- For example, we know they adjusted for total calorie intake, but we aren't shown how much total calorie intake accounts for changes in the adiposity measures. (medscape.com)
Differences1
- No differences in adiposity or glycemic control changes were seen between groups. (wineinformationcouncil.eu)
Metabolic1
- Individuals with normal body weight by body mass index (BMI) and high body fat percentage show a high degree of metabolic dysregulation. (nih.gov)
Total5
- the amount of fat in the body, expressed either as total fat mass (in kilograms) or the fraction (percentage) of total body fat. (cdc.gov)
- Overall, the average total body fat percentage was 2.8% lower among women of all ages who drank two or three cups of coffee per day. (prohealth.com)
- Overall, both a higher total percentage of body fat and visceral adipose score were associated with the lowest DSST score although this was not the case for visceral adipose scores and the MoCA. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
- RÉSUMÉ Pour vérifier l'hypothèse selon laquelle les graisses localisées et non le poids corporel total ont un effet protecteur sur la densité minérale osseuse des femmes ménopausées, une étude transversale a été menée entre mars 2008 et juin 2009 sur 303 femmes ménopausées en bonne santé consultant le service de soins de l'ostéoporose à des fins de dépistage. (who.int)
- nificance of individual coefficients in the en, bone mineral status is much more Daily routine calibration was done model was assessed by the Hosmer- closely associated with total body fat using the standard phantom supplied Lemeshow test for goodness of fit and [4] and in a multivariate model total fat by the manufacturer. (who.int)
Adults2
- Data from the 2003-2006 NHANES survey showed that fewer than 10% of American adults had a "normal" body fat percentage (defined as 5-20% for men and 8-30% for women). (wikipedia.org)
- Objective: to determine the agreement between dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) for measuring body fat percentage BF% and fat-free mass (FFM) among adults with DS. (aahd.us)
Quintile1
- MCS quintile was not associated with incident cancer and CHD, and the association between MCS and all-cause death (HR 1.33, 95% CI 1.01, 1.75) became non-significant after adjustment for adiposity. (biomedcentral.com)
Cardiovascular disease1
- Sarcopenic obesity, defined as reduced skeletal muscle mass and power with increased adiposity, was reported to be associated with cardiovascular disease risks in previous cross-sectional studies. (biomedcentral.com)
Body fat percentage and1
- The HRs (95% CIs) for endometrial cancer per 1 SD increase in BMI, body fat percentage and fat mass were broadly comparable, being 1.71 (1.61-1.82), 1.92 (1.75-2.11) and 1.73 (1.63-1.85), respectively. (ox.ac.uk)
Onset1
Equation1
- While attempts have been made to estimate the costs of obesity on the economy, none of these prior studies parsed out how much weight-based stigma or discrimination, as opposed to the adiposity itself, factors into the equation. (medpagetoday.com)
Indicator1
- The Body Mass Index (BMI) is used as an indicator of adiposity because it is simple, requires no technical equipment or special training, and is generally not affected by observer bias. (cdc.gov)
Predictor1
- Physical HRQoL is a significant predictor of a range of adverse outcomes, even after adjustment for adiposity and other confounders. (biomedcentral.com)
High1
- Body weight increased faster in the high ultra-processed food group - about 0.2 kg per year faster - but there was no difference in overall body fat percentage. (medscape.com)
Increases1
- Late bedtimes are associated with significant marginal increases in body fat percentage in adolescence. (researchsquare.com)
Analyses1
- The data were analysed using linear regression analyses adjusted for age and sex and subsequently for body fat percentage (BF%) assessed by DXA. (frontiersin.org)
Women4
- The percentage of essential body fat for women is greater than that for men, due to the demands of childbearing and other hormonal functions. (wikipedia.org)
- In 1983, the body fat percentages of American Olympians averaged 14-22% for women and 6-13% for men. (wikipedia.org)
- citation needed] Athletic performance might be affected by body fat: A study by the University of Arizona indicated that the ideal body fat percentage for athletic performance is 12-18% for women and 6-15% for men. (wikipedia.org)
- Among women 45-69, those who drank four or more cups had an adiposity percentage that was 4.1% lower than women who did not drink coffee. (prohealth.com)