The aim of this systematic review was to assess the performance of anthropometric tools to determine obesity in the general population (CRD42018086888). Our review included 32 …
The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Consultation on Waist Circumference and Waist–Hip Ratio was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 8–11 December 2008. The …
Although there is evidence that Asian Indians, Polynesians and Europeans differ in their body fat (BF)–BMI relationships, detailed comparative analysis of their underlying body …
SA Lear, PT James, GT Ko, S Kumanyika - European journal of clinical …, 2010 - nature.com
Current waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) cutoffs have been identified from studies of predominantly European-derived populations. However, these cutoffs may …
It is estimated that Asia will be the home of more than 100 million people with type 2 diabetes by the year of 2025. This region combines a high proportion of the world's …
For more than a decade, researchers in the field of obesity have debated the value of the BMI as the most common and convenient index for classifying the obese condition. The …
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …
M Ryu, J Jo, Y Lee, YS Chung, KM Kim… - Age and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objective: this study examined the association of physical activity with sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity among the community-dwelling Korean elderly. Methods: subjects …
G Rao, TM Powell-Wiley, I Ancheta, K Hairston… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
States, we acknowledge that specific groups make up a large or growing segment of the population and also suffer disproportionately from obesity and CVD. Groups that are the …