Beyond Body Mass Index: Advantages of Abdominal Measurements for Recognizing Cardiometabolic Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical recognition of cardiometabolic disorders might be enhanced by anthropometry based on the sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD; also called "abdominal height") or waist circumference rather than on weight. Direct comparisons of body mass index (BMI, weight/height(2)) with SAD/height ratio (SADHtR) or waist circumference/height ratio (WHtR) have not previously been tested in nationally representative populations.

Methods

Nonpregnant adults without diagnosed diabetes (ages 20-64 years; n = 3071) provided conventional anthropometry and supine SAD (by sliding-beam caliper) in the 2011-2012 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Population-weighted, logistic models estimated how strongly each anthropometric indicator was associated with 5 cardiome

SUBMITTER: Kahn HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5292922 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature