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Does waist circumference predict diabetes and cardiovascular disease beyond commonly evaluated cardiometabolic risk factors?

Janiszewski PM, Janssen I, Ross R.

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Are waist circumference and body mass index independently associated with cardiovascular disease risk in Chinese adults?

Wildman RP, Gu D, Reynolds K, Duan X, Wu X, He J.

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Influence of age on the relation between waist circumference and cardiometabolic risk markers.

Janssen I.

Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2009 Mar;19(3):163-9. Epub 2008 Sep 21.PMID: 18809302 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Abdominal obesity and the spectrum of global cardiometabolic risks in US adults.

Ghandehari H, Le V, Kamal-Bahl S, Bassin SL, Wong ND.

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Combination of BMI and Waist Circumference for Identifying Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Whites.

Zhu S, Heshka S, Wang Z, Shen W, Allison DB, Ross R, Heymsfield SB.

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Cardiovascular disease in U.S. patients with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and elevated C-reactive protein.

Malik S, Wong ND, Franklin S, Pio J, Fairchild C, Chen R.

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Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk.

Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Ross R.

Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Mar;79(3):379-84.PMID: 14985210 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Association between cardiometabolic risk factors and body mass index based on diagnosis and treatment codes in an electronic medical record database.

Brixner D, Ghate SR, McAdam-Marx C, Ben-Joseph R, Said Q.

J Manag Care Pharm. 2008 Oct;14(8):756-67.PMID: 18983205 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholds.

Zhu S, Wang Z, Heshka S, Heo M, Faith MS, Heymsfield SB.

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BMI vs. waist circumference for identifying vascular risk.

Freiberg MS, Pencina MJ, D'Agostino RB, Lanier K, Wilson PW, Vasan RS.

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Secular trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors according to body mass index in US adults.

Gregg EW, Cheng YJ, Cadwell BL, Imperatore G, Williams DE, Flegal KM, Narayan KM, Williamson DF.

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Combined influence of body mass index and waist circumference on coronary artery disease risk factors among children and adolescents.

Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Srinivasan SR, Chen W, Malina RM, Bouchard C, Berenson GS.

Pediatrics. 2005 Jun;115(6):1623-30.PMID: 15930225 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Abdominal obesity, waist circumference and cardio-metabolic risk: awareness among primary care physicians, the general population and patients at risk--the Shape of the Nations survey.

Smith SC Jr, Haslam D.

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Waist circumference predicts cardiometabolic and global Framingham risk among women screened during National Woman's Heart Day.

Mosca L, Edelman D, Mochari H, Christian AH, Paultre F, Pollin I.

J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2006 Jan-Feb;15(1):24-34.PMID: 16417415 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Separate and combined influence of body mass index and waist circumference on arthritis and knee osteoarthritis.

Janssen I, Mark AE.

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Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Zhu S, Heymsfield SB, Toyoshima H, Wang Z, Pietrobelli A, Heshka S.

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Waist circumference, body mass index, hip circumference and waist-to-hip ratio as predictors of cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal people.

Wang Z, Hoy WE.

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[Predictive value of combined measurements of body mass index and waist circumference for the risk of cardiovascular disease]

Wang W, Zhao D, Sun JY, Liu J, Liu J, Qin LP, Wu ZS.

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Determination of the leading central obesity index among cardiovascular risk factors in Iranian women.

Shahraki T, Shahraki M, Roudbari M, Gargari BP.

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[Relation of body mass index and waist circumference with clustering of other risk factors for cardiovascular disease]

Zhao LC, Wu YF, Li Y, Zhou BF, Yang J.

Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2003 Sep;37(5):346-50. Chinese. PMID: 14680598 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles