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Prediction of cardiovascular disease by abdominal obesity measures is dependent on body weight and sex: results from two community based cohort studies
Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ; Centre for Family Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Dalarna University, School of Education, Health and Social Studies, Medical Science. Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences/Section of Geriatrics Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6933-4637
Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
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2014 (English)In: NMCD. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, ISSN 0939-4753, E-ISSN 1590-3729, Vol. 24, no 8, p. 891-899Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

AIM: To study waist-hip ratio (WHR), waist circumference (WC), sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD), and waist-hip-height ratio (WHHR) as predictors of CVD, in men and women stratified by BMI (cut-off ≥25).

METHODS AND RESULTS: A cohort of n = 3741 (53% women) 60-year old individuals without CVD was followed for 11-years (375 CVD cases). To replicate the results, we also assessed another large independent cohort; The Malmö Diet and Cancer study - cardiovascular cohort (MDCC, (n = 5180, 60% women, 602 CVD cases during 16-years). After adjustment for established risk factors in normal-weight women, the hazard ratio (HR) per one standard deviation (SD) were; WHR; 1.91 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.35-2.70), WC; 1.81 (95% CI 1.02-3.20), SAD; 1.25 (95% CI 0.74-2.11), and WHHR; 1.97 (95% CI 1.40-2.78). In men the association with WHR, WHHR and WC were not significant, whereas SAD was the only measure that significantly predicted CVD in men (HR 1.19 (95% CI 1.04-1.35). After adjustments for established risk factors in overweight/obese women, none of the measures were significantly associated with CVD risk. In men, however, all measures were significant predictors; WHR; 1.24 (955 CI 1.04-1.47), WC 1.19 (95% CI 1.00-1.42), SAD 1.21 (95% CI 1.00-1.46), and WHHR; 1.23 (95% CI 1.05-1.44). Only the findings in men with BMI ≥ 25 were verified in MDCC.

CONCLUSION: In normal weight individuals, WHHR and WHR were the best predictors in women, whereas SAD was the only independent predictor in men. Among overweight/obese individuals all measures failed to predict CVD in women, whereas WHHR was the strongest predictor after adjustments for CVD risk factors in men.

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2014. Vol. 24, no 8, p. 891-899
Keywords [en]
Waist-hip-height ratio; Sagittal abdominal diameter; Body mass index; Gender; Epidemiology; Incident cardiovascular disease
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Clinical Medicine
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Research Profiles 2009-2020, Health and Welfare
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-14214DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2014.02.001ISI: 000341315200015PubMedID: 24680224Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84904749496OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-14214DiVA, id: diva2:723502
Available from: 2014-06-10 Created: 2014-06-10 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved

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