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The Scale of the Problem—Overweight and Obesity
Published in Ruth Chambers, Paula Stather, Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care, 2022
Indices of central obesity, including waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio, waist-to-thigh ratio, body adiposity index and a body shape index independent of overall adiposity, were all found to be positively associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality in the general population in a systematic review of 72 published research studies.1
Weight and health
Published in Sally Robinson, Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health, 2021
A body shape index (ABSI) measures the risk of waist circumference relative to height and BMI (Krakauer and Krakauer, 2012). A high score indicates that a person’s waist circumference is greater than expected, given their weight and height.
Predictive power of a body shape index and traditional anthropometric indicators for cardiovascular disease: a cohort study in rural Xinjiang, China
Published in Annals of Human Biology, 2022
Tao Wu, Bin Wei, Yan-peng Song, Xiang-hui Zhang, Yi-zhong Yan, Xin-ping Wang, Jiao-long Ma, Mulatibieke Keerman, Jing-yu Zhang, Jia He, Ru-lin Ma, Heng Guo, Dong-sheng Rui, Shu-xia Guo
Traditional anthropometric indicators include waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and body mass index (BMI). BMI can reflect the overall distribution of body fat (Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry 1995), but it cannot identify the location of fat, while the WC, WHR, and WHtR mainly reflect the accumulation of abdominal fat (Esmaillzadeh et al. 2004; Li et al. 2007; Zhou et al. 2014); factors such as muscle mass are not considered. To describe the body shape more comprehensively and compensate for the shortcomings of traditional anthropometric indicators, Krakauer and Krakauer (2012) combined waist circumference, height, and weight to propose a new anthropometric index called the A Body Shape Index (ABSI). This indicator has been proven to be related to a population’s all-cause mortality (Krakauer and Krakauer 2012; Sato et al. 2017) and has been used in studies on CVD and diabetes (Maessen et al. 2014; Han et al. 2017; Bawadi et al. 2019); however, the application of this indicator has produced different results.
Anthropometric indices of obesity as predictors of high blood pressure among school children
Published in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2022
Huda M. Al Hourani, Buthaina Alkhatib
Other anthropometric indices have been developed to predict EBP or HTN with less frequent use, such as the a body shape index (ABSI), body roundness index (BRI) and conicity index (CI) (16–19). ABSI was developed by Krakauer and Krakauer (20) based on WC that is independent of height and body mass and first found to provide greater predictability of elevated blood pressure alongside with WC and BMI in children and adolescents (21). On the other hand, ABSI alone showed poor prediction in the identification of the risk of EBP, HTN and CVD among children and adolescents (22) and adult subjects (23). BRI is another index that can be used as a predictor of %body fat and % visceral adipose tissue in a group of participants older than 18 years (24). Finally, CI evaluates WC in relation to weight and height, it was proposed by Valdez (25), suggesting that individuals with less central body fat accumulation would have a cylinder body shape, whereas those with higher accumulation would have a double cone body form. One study found that it has less discriminatory power than BMI, WC, WHtR for high blood pressure (12).
Association between Dietary Glycaemic Index and Glycaemic Load and Adiposity Indices in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2020
Ebru Melekoglu, Dincer Goksuluk, Emine Akal Yildiz
Anthropometric data were measured by the interviewer. Weight was measured in light clothing, fasting and barefoot using a calibrated electronic scale with an accuracy of 0.1 kg. Height was measured without shoes using a stadiometer to the nearest 0.1 cm (scales and stadiometer: Seca, model 220, Germany). Body mass index (BMI) was calculated using the formula: BMI = weight (kg)/height (m)2, and categorized based on the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, which are underweight: BMI <18.5 kg/m2; normal: BMI 18.5–24.9 kg/m2; pre-obesity: BMI 25.0–29.9 kg/m2; obesity class I: BMI 30.0–34.9 kg/m2; obesity class II: BMI 35.0–39.9 kg/m2; obesity class III: BMI> 40 kg/m2 (23). Waist circumference was measured using an inelastic metric tape, at the midpoint between the highest point of the iliac crest and the last palpable ribcage. Hip circumference was measured at the largest part of the buttocks with the inelastic metric tape parallel to the floor. We calculated the waist-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and a body shape index (ABSI) using the following formulas;