New indexes of body fat distribution and sex-specific risk of total and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A number of prior studies have examined the association between anthropometric measures and mortality, but studies investigating the sex-specific predictive value of novel anthropometric measures on mortality are scarce so far. Therefore, we investigated the sex-specific relevance of the new anthropometric measures body adiposity index (BAI) and waist to height ratio (WHtR) as well as the common measures body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist to hip ratio (WHR) for cause-specific mortality risk. METHODS:The analysis was based on data from the German population based KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg) Augsburg cohort study. A total of 6670 men and 6637 women aged 25 to 74 years at baseline examination were included. During a mean foll

SUBMITTER: Rost S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879745 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature