Prevalence of Obesity, Diabetes, and Obesity-Related Health Risk Factors, 2001 -
AH Mokdad, ES Ford, BA Bowman, WH Dietz, F Vinicor … - JAMA, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... Diabetes, and Obesity-Related Health Risk Factors, 2001 ... states participating in the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance ... the prevalence of obesity (BMI 30) was ...

Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk. -
I Janssen, PT Katzmarzyk, R Ross - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2004 - Am Soc Nutrition
... Background: The addition of waist circumference (WC) to body mass index (BMI; in
kg/m 2 ) predicts a greater variance in health risk than does BMI alone ...

… , Waist Circumference, and Health Risk Evidence in Support of Current National Institutes of Health … -
I Janssen, PT Katzmarzyk, R Ross - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002 - Am Med Assoc
... points recommended by the National Institutes of Health to identify subjects at
increased health risk within the various body mass index (BMI; calculated as ...

The Role of Health Risk Factors and Disease on Worker Productivity. -
WN Burton, DJ Conti, CY Chen, AB Schultz, DW … - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1999 - joem.org
... that can contribute to poor health states, such ... The biological risks are based on
self-report ... used to calculate an individual's body mass index (BMI), which is ...

Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health … -
SK Zhu, ZM Wang, S Heshka, M Heo, MS Faith, SB … - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002 - Am Soc Nutrition
... Key Words: Body mass index ? BMI ? cardiovascular disease risk factors ? obesity ?
waist circumference ? third National Health and Nutrition ...

Relationship Between Modifiable Health Risks and Short-term Health Care Charges -
NP Pronk, MJ Goodman, PJ O'Connor, BC Martinson - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
... measured by billed health care charges from July 1, 1995, to December 31, 1996,
compared by health risk (physical activity, body mass index [BMI], and smoking ...

Relation of Sleep-disordered Breathing to Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors The Sleep Heart Health … -
… for the Sleep Heart Health Study Research Group - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - Oxford Univ Press
... the higher cardiovascular risk factors in ... Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index ? CVD,
cardiovascular disease ? HDL ... Index ? SHHS, Sleep Heart Health Study. ...

Discrimination of Health Risk by Combined Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference -
CI Ardern, PT Katzmarzyk, I Janssen, R Ross - Obesity Research, 2003 - NAASO
... part of clinical cardiovascular risk assess- ments and interpretation of health
risks associated with adiposity. In their sample, a body mass index (BMI) of 25 ...

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among US Children, Adolescents, and Adults, 1999-2002 -
AA Hedley, CL Ogden, CL Johnson, MD Carroll, LR … - JAMA, 2004 - Am Med Assoc
... obesity were defined as a body mass index (BMI, calculated as ... percentile of the
sex-specific BMI for age ... if there are any additional health risks that would ...

Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention … -
EC WHO - Lancet, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... about interpretation of recommended body-mass index (BMI) cut-off ... have different
associations between BMI, percentage of body fat, and health risks than do ...