Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

R Ross, IJ Neeland, S Yamashita, I Shai… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite decades of unequivocal evidence that waist circumference provides both
independent and additive information to BMI for predicting morbidity and risk of death, this …

The effectiveness of dietary polyphenols in obesity management: A systematic review and meta-analysis of human clinical trials

Y Zhang, H Balasooriya, S Sirisena, K Ng - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Dietary polyphenols have been postulated to be effective in preventing obesity through
various multitargeted mechanisms of weight loss. A meta-analysis of recent clinical trials …

Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia

PP Glasziou, MA Jones, T Pathirana… - Medical Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To estimate the proportion of cancer diagnoses in Australia that might reasonably
be attributed to overdiagnosis by comparing current and past lifetime risks of cancer. Design …

The effects of curcumin supplementation on body weight, body mass index and waist circumference: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of …

SM Mousavi, A Milajerdi, HK Varkaneh… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background & Objectives: Inconsistent data are available about the effect of
curcumin supplementation on body weight. This systematic review and meta-analysis was …

[HTML][HTML] Winter is over: the use of artificial intelligence to individualise radiation therapy for breast cancer

PMP Poortmans, S Takanen, GN Marta, I Meattini… - The Breast, 2020 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence demonstrated its value for automated contouring of organs at risk and
target volumes as well as for auto-planning of radiation dose distributions in terms of saving …

Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in 2015–2016 and 8-year longitudinal weight and waist circumference changes in adults and elderly: the Tromsø Study

O Løvsletten, BK Jacobsen, S Grimsgaard, I Njølstad… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To describe the prevalence of general (body mass index (BMI)≥ 30 kg/m2) and
abdominal (waist circumference women> 88 cm, men> 102 cm) obesity in Tromsø 7 (2015 …

Waist circumference change during intensive lifestyle intervention and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Look AHEAD Trial

KLL Olson, RH Neiberg, MA Espeland, KC Johnson… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) trial was a randomized trial
comparing effects of intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) and diabetes support and education …

Comparative study on prevalence of metabolic syndrome based on three criteria among adults in Zhejiang province, China: an observational study

X Wang, D Howell, L Tang, J Shao, Z Ye - Bmj Open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives In this study, we aimed to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS)
among Chinese adults, describe the disease components and compare utility of the existing …

A descriptive study of ten-year longitudinal changes in weight and waist circumference in the multi-ethnic rural Northern Norway. The SAMINOR Study, 2003-2014

BK Jacobsen, M Melhus, K Kvaløy, SRA Siri… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The obesity epidemic is dynamic with varying secular trends and differences between
countries and ethnic groups. The objective of this study was to describe the age-and sex …

DNA methylation and adiposity phenotypes: an epigenome-wide association study among adults in the Strong Heart Study

KC Crocker, A Domingo-Relloso, K Haack… - International Journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Background Elevated adiposity is often posited by medical and public health researchers to
be a risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other diseases. These …