Waist circumference correlates with metabolic syndrome indicators better than percentage fat.

摘要: Objective: Percent fat is often considered the reference for establishing magnitude of adipose tissue accumulation and risk excess adiposity. However, increasing recognition a strong link between central adiposity metabolic disturbances led us to test whether waist circumference (WC) more highly correlated with syndrome components than percent other related anthropometric measures such as BMI. Research Methods Procedures: BMI, WC, fat, measured by DXA, were evaluated in 1010 healthy white African-American men women [age, 48.3 ± 17.2 (standard deviation) years; 27.0 5.3 kg/m2]. The associations age laboratory-adjusted health indicators (i.e., serum glucose, insulin, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood pressure) each sex ethnicity group examined. Results: For 18 24 comparisons, age- correlations lowest 16 comparisons highest WC. Fifteen between-method differences reached statistical significance. With indicator dependent variable independent variable, contribution WC regression model was not statistically significant; contrast, adding did make significant most indicators. Discussion: had strongest indicators, followed BMI. Although useful measure overall adiposity, risks are best represented simply