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Waist circumference cut-off points for the diagnosis of abdominal obesity in Colombian population by means of bioimpedance as a reference standard
Correlation study between diagnostic tests and cut-off points of waist circumference to define abdominal obesity in Colombian population where the reference standard was bioimpedance as a method of estimating visceral fat. ...
Waist circumference distribution in Colombian schoolchildren and adolescents: The FUPRECOL Study
Objective This study was intended to establish the percentile distribution of waist circumference in schoolchildren from Bogota, Colombia, participating in the FUPRECOL Study. Methods A cross-sectional study conducted in ...
LMS tables for waist circumference and waist-height ratio in Colombian adults: Analysis of nationwide data 2010
Background/Objectives:Indices predictive of central obesity include waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). These data are lacking for Colombian adults. This study aims at establishing smoothed centile ...
Waist circumference and abdominal volume index are the strongest anthropometric discriminators of metabolic syndrome in Spanish adolescents
Background: Waist circumference has been suggested as predictor for metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents but it has not been compared with newly proposed anthropometric indexes. This study aimed to disclose the capacity ...
Self-reported health is related to body Height and waist circumference in rural indigenous and urbanised Latin-American populations
(Springer NatureScientific reports, 2020)
Values of waist/hip ratio among children and adolescents from bogotá, colombia: The fuprecol study
Objective: the aim was to establish reference standards for waist/hip ratio among Colombia children and adolescent aged 9 to 17.9 years who participated in “The FUPRECOL Study”. Methods: cross-sectional study. A sample of ...
Using LMS tables to determine waist circumference and waist-to-height ratios in Colombian children and adolescents : The FUPRECOL study
(2017)
Background: Waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) are often used as indices predictive of central obesity. The aims of this study were: 1) to obtain smoothed centile charts and LMS tables for WC and ...
Scaling children's waist circumference for differences in body size
Objectives: Both waist circumference (WC) and body size (height) increase with age throughout childhood. Hence, there is a need to scale WC in children to detect differences in adiposity status (eg, between populations and ...
Ingestão de lipídios na dieta e indicadores antropométricos de adiposidade em policiais militares
(LondrinaBrasil, 2009)
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is any relationship between dietary fats and measures of adiposity in military policemen from Cascavel (PR), Brazil. Methods: The study evaluated 183 ...