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General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7•5 million participants |
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Zhou, Bin; Bennett, James E; Wickham, Aidan P; Singleton, Rosie K; Mishra, Anu; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M; Ikeda, Nayu; Jain, Lakshya; Barradas-Pires, Ana; Heap, Rachel A; Lhoste, Victor PF; Sheffer, Kate E; Phelps, Nowell H; Rayner, Archie W; Gregg, Edward W; Stevens, Gretchen A; Iurilli, Maria LC; Danaei, Goodarz; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A; Ahmad, Noor Ani; Bovet, Pascal; Chen, Zhengming; Damasceno, Albertino; Filippi, Sarah L; Janszky, Imre; Kengne, Andre P; Khang, Young-Ho; Khunti, Kamlesh; Laxmaiah, Avula; Lim, Lee-Ling; Lissner, Lauren; Margozzini, Paula; Mbanya, Jean Claude; McGarvey, Stephen; Shaw, Jonathan E; Soderberg, Stefan; Soto-Mota, Luis Adrian; Wang, Junyang; Zaccardi, Francesco; Ezzati, Majid; Abarca-Gomez, Leandra; Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen; Abdrakhmanova, Shynar; Ghaffar, Suhaila Abdul; Rahim, Hanan F Abdul; Abdurrahmonova, Zulfiya; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M; Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin; Adam, Ishag; Adamczyk, Marzena; Aekplakorn, Wichai; Agdeppa, Imelda A; Aghazadeh-Attari, Javad; Agyemang, Charles; Ahmad, Mohamad Hasnan; Ahmadi, Ali; Ahmadi, Naser; Ahmadi, Nastaran; Ahmed, Soheir H; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Aitmurzaeva, Gulmira; Ajlouni, Kamel; Al-Hazzaa, Hazzaa M; Al-Hinai, Halima; Al-Lawati, Jawad A; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Al Asfoor, Deena; Al Hourani, Huda M; Alarouj, Monira; AlBuhairan, Fadia; AlDhukair, Shahla; Ali, Mohamed M; Alieva, Anna V; Alkandari, Abdullah; Alkhatib, Buthaina M; Aly, Eman; Amarapurkar, Deepak N; Etxezarreta, Pilar Amiano; Amougou, Norbert; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund A; Androutsos, Odysseas; Anjana, Ranjit Mohan; Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza; Anufrieva, Elena; Aounallah-Skhir, Hajer; Aris, Tahir; Arku, Raphael E; Arlappa, Nimmathota; Aryal, Krishna K; Assah, Felix K; Assembekov, Batyrbek; Assuncao, Maria Cecilia F; Auvinen, Juha; Avdicova, Maria; Azad, Kishwar; Azevedo, Ana; Azimi-Nezhad, Mohsen; Azizi, Fereidoun; Bacopoulou, Flora; Bahijri, Suhad; Bajramovic, Izet; Balakrishna, Nagalla; Bamoshmoosh, Mohamed; Banach, Maciej; Bandosz, Piotr; Banegas, Jose R; Baran, Rafal; Barbagallo, Carlo M; Barbosa Filho, Valter; Barcelo, Alberto; Baretic, Maja; Barnoya, Joaquin; Barrera, Lena; Barros, Aluisio JD; Barros, Mauro Virgilio Gomes; Basit, Abdul; Bastos, Joao Luiz; Batieha, Anwar M; Batista, Aline P; Batista, Rosangela L; Battakova, Zhamilya; Baur, Louise A; Bayauli, Pascal M; Bel-Serrat, Silvia; Belavendra, Antonisamy; Ben Romdhane, Habiba; Benedek, Theodora; Benedics, Judith; Benet, Mikhail; Rolandi, Gilda Estela Benitez; Benzeval, Michaela; Bere, Elling; Berger, Nicolas; Bergh, Ingunn Holden; Berkinbayev, Salim; Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio; Bettiol, Heloisa; Beybey, Augustin F; Bezerra, Jorge; Bhagyalaxmi, Aroor; Bhargava, Santosh K; Lele, Elysee Claude Bika; Bikbov, Mukharram M; Bista, Bihungum; Bjelica, Dusko J; Bjerregaard, Peter; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius B; Bjorkelund, Cecilia; Bloch, Katia V; Blokstra, Anneke; Bo, Simona; Bobak, Martin; Boddy, Lynne M; Boehm, Bernhard O; Boggia, Jose G; Bogova, Elena; 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| Source: |
Lancet , 404 (10455) pp. 851-863. (2024) |
| Publisher Information: |
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
University College London: UCL Discovery |
| Subject Terms: |
Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Medicine; General & Internal; General & Internal Medicine; BODY-MASS INDEX; TO-HEIGHT RATIO; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; CENTRAL OBESITY; INEQUALITIES; CHINESE; SIZE; BMI; FAT |
| Description: |
Background: Adiposity can be measured using BMI (which is based on weight and height) as well as indices of abdominal adiposity. We examined the association between BMI and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) within and across populations of different world regions and quantified how well these two metrics discriminate between people with and without hypertension. Methods: We used data from studies carried out from 1990 to 2023 on BMI, WHtR and hypertension in people aged 20–64 years in representative samples of the general population in eight world regions. We graphically compared the regional distributions of BMI and WHtR, and calculated Pearson's correlation coefficients between BMI and WHtR within each region. We used mixed-effects linear regression to estimate the extent to which WHtR varies across regions at the same BMI. We graphically examined the prevalence of hypertension and the distribution of people who have hypertension both in relation to BMI and WHtR, and we assessed how closely BMI and WHtR discriminate between participants with and without hypertension using C-statistic and net reclassification improvement (NRI). Findings: The correlation between BMI and WHtR ranged from 0·76 to 0·89 within different regions. After adjusting for age and BMI, mean WHtR was highest in south Asia for both sexes, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean and the region of central Asia, Middle East and north Africa. Mean WHtR was lowest in central and eastern Europe for both sexes, in the high-income western region for women, and in Oceania for men. Conversely, to achieve an equivalent WHtR, the BMI of the population of south Asia would need to be, on average, 2·79 kg/m2 (95% CI 2·31–3·28) lower for women and 1·28 kg/m2 (1·02–1·54) lower for men than in the high-income western region. In every region, hypertension prevalence increased with both BMI and WHtR. Models with either of these two adiposity metrics had virtually identical C-statistics and NRIs for every region and sex, with C-statistics ranging from 0·72 to 0·81 ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205315/ |
| Availability: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205315/7/Pikhart_1-s2.0-S0140673624014053-main.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205315/ |
| Rights: |
open |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.4FFC9D05 |
| Database: |
BASE |