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Comparison of Relative Waist Circumference between Asian Indian and US Adults

Background. Relative to Europeans, Asian Indians have higher rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Whether differences in body composition may underlie these population differences remains unclear. Methods. We compared directly measured anthropometric data from the Chennai Urban Rural...

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Autores principales: Bajaj, Harpreet S., Pereira, Mark A., Anjana, Rajit Mohan, Deepa, Raj, Mohan, Viswanathan, Mueller, Noel T., Rao, Gundu H. R., Gross, Myron D.
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/461956
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author Bajaj, Harpreet S.
Pereira, Mark A.
Anjana, Rajit Mohan
Deepa, Raj
Mohan, Viswanathan
Mueller, Noel T.
Rao, Gundu H. R.
Gross, Myron D.
author_facet Bajaj, Harpreet S.
Pereira, Mark A.
Anjana, Rajit Mohan
Deepa, Raj
Mohan, Viswanathan
Mueller, Noel T.
Rao, Gundu H. R.
Gross, Myron D.
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description Background. Relative to Europeans, Asian Indians have higher rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Whether differences in body composition may underlie these population differences remains unclear. Methods. We compared directly measured anthropometric data from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) survey of southern Indians (I) with those from three US ethnic groups (C: Caucasians, A: African Americans, and M: Mexican Americans) from NHANES III (Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey). A total of 15,733 subjects from CURES and 5,975 from NHANES III met inclusion criteria (age 20–39, no known diabetes). Results. Asian Indian men and women had substantially lower body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body surface area relative to US groups (P values <0.0001). In contrast, the mean (±se) waist-weight ratio was significantly higher (P < 0.001) in I (men 1.35 ± 0.002 and women 1.45 ± 0.002) than in all the US groups (1.09, 1.21, and 1.14 in A, M, and C men; 1.23, 1.33, and 1.26 in A, M, and C women (se ranged from 0.005 to 0.006)). Conclusions. Compared to the US, the waist-weight ratio is significantly higher in men and women from Chennai, India. These results support the hypothesis that Southeast Asian Indians are particularly predisposed toward central adiposity.
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spelling pubmed-41899752014-10-19 Comparison of Relative Waist Circumference between Asian Indian and US Adults Bajaj, Harpreet S. Pereira, Mark A. Anjana, Rajit Mohan Deepa, Raj Mohan, Viswanathan Mueller, Noel T. Rao, Gundu H. R. Gross, Myron D. J Obes Research Article Background. Relative to Europeans, Asian Indians have higher rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Whether differences in body composition may underlie these population differences remains unclear. Methods. We compared directly measured anthropometric data from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) survey of southern Indians (I) with those from three US ethnic groups (C: Caucasians, A: African Americans, and M: Mexican Americans) from NHANES III (Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey). A total of 15,733 subjects from CURES and 5,975 from NHANES III met inclusion criteria (age 20–39, no known diabetes). Results. Asian Indian men and women had substantially lower body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body surface area relative to US groups (P values <0.0001). In contrast, the mean (±se) waist-weight ratio was significantly higher (P < 0.001) in I (men 1.35 ± 0.002 and women 1.45 ± 0.002) than in all the US groups (1.09, 1.21, and 1.14 in A, M, and C men; 1.23, 1.33, and 1.26 in A, M, and C women (se ranged from 0.005 to 0.006)). Conclusions. Compared to the US, the waist-weight ratio is significantly higher in men and women from Chennai, India. These results support the hypothesis that Southeast Asian Indians are particularly predisposed toward central adiposity. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4189975/ /pubmed/25328687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/461956 Text en Copyright © 2014 Harpreet S. Bajaj et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gross, Myron D.
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