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==Overview==
==Overview==
==Screening==
==Screening==
===Waist circumference===
BMI does not take into account differing ratios of [[adipose]] to lean tissue; nor does it distinguish between differing forms of adiposity, some of which may correlate more closely with [[cardiovascular]] risk. Increasing understanding of the biology of different forms of adipose tissue has shown that ''visceral'' fat or ''[[central obesity]]'' (male-type or apple-type obesity) has a much stronger correlation, particularly with [[cardiovascular disease]], than the BMI alone.<ref name=Yusuf2004>{{cite journal | author=Yusuf S, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Dans T, Avezum A, Lanas F, McQueen M, Budaj A, Pais P, Varigos J, Lisheng L, INTERHEART Study Investigators. | title=Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study.|journal=[[The Lancet|Lancet]] | year=2004 | pages=937-52 | volume=364 | id=PMID 15364185}}</ref>
The absolute waist circumference (>102 cm in men and >88 cm in women) or [[waist-hip ratio]] (>0.9 for men and >0.85 for women)<ref name=Yusuf2004/> are both used as measures of central obesity.
In a cohort of almost 15,000 subjects from the [[National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey]] (NHANES) III study, waist circumference explained obesity-related health risk significantly better than BMI when [[metabolic syndrome]] was taken as an outcome measure.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Ross R |title=Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk |journal=Am. J. Clin. Nutr. |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=379–84 |year=2004 |pmid=14985210 |url=http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/79/3/379}}</ref>
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Overview

Screening

Waist circumference

BMI does not take into account differing ratios of adipose to lean tissue; nor does it distinguish between differing forms of adiposity, some of which may correlate more closely with cardiovascular risk. Increasing understanding of the biology of different forms of adipose tissue has shown that visceral fat or central obesity (male-type or apple-type obesity) has a much stronger correlation, particularly with cardiovascular disease, than the BMI alone.[1]

The absolute waist circumference (>102 cm in men and >88 cm in women) or waist-hip ratio (>0.9 for men and >0.85 for women)[1] are both used as measures of central obesity.

In a cohort of almost 15,000 subjects from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III study, waist circumference explained obesity-related health risk significantly better than BMI when metabolic syndrome was taken as an outcome measure.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Yusuf S, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Dans T, Avezum A, Lanas F, McQueen M, Budaj A, Pais P, Varigos J, Lisheng L, INTERHEART Study Investigators. (2004). "Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study". Lancet. 364: 937–52. PMID 15364185.
  2. Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Ross R (2004). "Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk". Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 79 (3): 379–84. PMID 14985210.

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