BMI May Be Better Than Waist Circumference for Defining Metabolic Syndrome in Japanese Women | Zendy

Masaru Sakurai | Zendy; Toshinari Takamura | Zendy; Katsuyuki Miura | Zendy; Shuichi Kaneko | Zendy; Hideaki Nakagawa | Zendy

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BMI May Be Better Than Waist Circumference for Defining Metabolic Syndrome in Japanese Women

Author(s) -

Masaru Sakurai,

Toshinari Takamura,

Katsuyuki Miura,

Shuichi Kaneko,

Hideaki Nakagawa

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc07-0309

Subject(s) - medicine , waist , circumference , metabolic syndrome , diabetes mellitus , obesity , endocrinology , geometry , mathematics

We previously addressed sex differences in the associations between anthropometric indexes of obesity and blood pressure and showed that blood pressure was more strongly related to BMI than to waist circumference in Japanese women (1). As hypertension is a major component of metabolic syndrome in Japanese patients, a similar sex difference may exist in the association between anthropometric indexes and the metabolic components of metabolic syndrome. We investigated the possible sex differences of these associations.Study subjects consisted of 2,935 men and …

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