Title |
Waist Circumference Adjusted for Body Mass Index and Intra-Abdominal Fat Mass
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0032213 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Tina Landsvig Berentzen, Lars Ängquist, Anna Kotronen, Ronald Borra, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Patricia Iozzo, Riitta Parkkola, Pirjo Nuutila, Robert Ross, David B. Allison, Steven B. Heymsfield, Kim Overvad, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Marianne Uhre Jakobsen |
Abstract |
The association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality is particularly strong and direct when adjusted for body mass index (BMI). One conceivable explanation for this association is that WC adjusted for BMI is a better predictor of the presumably most harmful intra-abdominal fat mass (IAFM) than WC alone. We studied the prediction of abdominal subcutaneous fat mass (ASFM) and IAFM by WC alone and by addition of BMI as an explanatory factor. |
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