How useful is waist circumference for assessment of abdominal obesity in Korean pre-menopausal women during weight loss?  

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Mi-Ja, Hwang ; Won-Suk, Chung ; Gallagher, Dympna ; Deog-Yoon, Kim ; Hyun-Dae, Shin ; Mi-Yeon, Song

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 17 no. 02 (2008), page 229.
Topik: abdominal fat; Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry; obesity; waist circumference; fat distribution

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: A27.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Asian women are known to have a larger amount of abdominal fat (AF) for the same level of BMI compared with Caucasian and African-American women. This study was aimed to determine whether waist circumference (WC) could be useful as an index of AF compared with AF measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) before and after a weight-loss program in Asian women. Thirty-eight healthy, pre-menopausal obese Korean women (body fat percent > 30%) were enrolled and followed during a 6-week weight-loss program including herbal formula, calorie restriction, and exercise. Anthropometry and DXA measurements were performed before and after weight-loss. A specific region of interest (ROI, L2-iliac crest) by DXA was correlated with anthropometry at baseline: WC (? = 0.91) > BMI (? = 0.87) > Waist-Height ratio (WHtR, ? = 0.82) > WHR (? = 0.46); and after weight loss: BMI (? = 0.88) > WC (? = 0.84) > WHtR (? = 0.82), all p < 0.01. The change in DXA ROI showed a reasonable correlation with change in anthropometry: BMI (? = 0 .63, p < 0.01) > WC (? = 0.39, p < 0.05) > WHtR (? = 0.37, p < 0.05). A stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that 83% of the variance in DXA derived AF was explained by WC at baseline, WC and BMI at follow-up, respectively. This study suggests that WC could be a good predictor of AF for Korean pre-menopausal women.

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