Associations of general and abdominal obesity with multiple health outcomes in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study
AR Folsom, LH Kushi, KE Anderson… - Archives of internal …, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Background Recent clinical guidelines on the health risks of obesity use body mass index
(BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and waist
circumference, but the waist-hip ratio may provide independent information. Methods To
assess the joint and relative associations of BMI, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio
with multiple disease end points, we conducted a prospective cohort study of 31,702 Iowa
women, aged 55 to 69 years and free of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, assembled by …
(BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and waist
circumference, but the waist-hip ratio may provide independent information. Methods To
assess the joint and relative associations of BMI, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio
with multiple disease end points, we conducted a prospective cohort study of 31,702 Iowa
women, aged 55 to 69 years and free of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, assembled by …