Waist-to-height ratio, a simple and practical index for assessing central fat distribution and metabolic risk in Japanese men and women - Hsieh, S.D; Yoshinaga, H; Muto, T (International Journal of Obesity, 2003)
Keywords: Abdomen; Adult; Age; Age Distribution; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Body Height; Body Height - physiology; Body Mass Index; Body Weight; Body Weight - physiology; Comparative analysis; Control; correlation; Correlation coefficient; Demographic aspects; Energy Metabolism; Energy Metabolism - physiology; Epidemiology; exercise; fatty liver; Female; gamma-glutamyltransferase; gender; Health aspects; Health care; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health risk assessment; Health risks; high density lipoprotein cholesterol; Hospitals; Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology; Humans; hypercholesterolemia; hyperglycemia; Hypertension; hypertriglyceridemia; hyperuricemia; Internal Medicine; Japan; Japanese people; Male; Measurement; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; men; Metabolic Diseases; Metabolism; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement; Obesity; Obesity - metabolism; Obesity - pathology; odds ratio; Overweight; Overweight persons; pathology; physiology; Public Health; risk; Risk Factors; ultrasonography; underweight; waist circumference; waist-to-height ratio; Women; World Health Organization; Japan; Asia; normal BMI; waist-to-height ratio; waist circumference; overweight; metabolic risks; Human; Body weight; Male; Statistical study; Overweight; Distribution; Risk factor; Female; Ratio; Woman