Central fatness and risk of all cause mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of 72 prospective cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the association of indices of central obesity, including waist circumference, hip circumference, thigh circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio, waist-to-thigh ratio, body adiposity index, and A body shape index, with the risk of all cause mortality in the general population, and to clarify the shape of the dose-response relations.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data sources

PubMed and Scopus from inception to July 2019, and the reference lists of all related articles and reviews.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Prospective cohort studies reporting the risk estimates of all cause mortality across at least three categories of indices of central fatness. Studies that reported continuous estimation of t

SUBMITTER: Jayedi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7509947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature