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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Becoming oldest-old : evidence from historical U.S. data 
    Publication: Chestnut Hill, MA : Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, c2003
    ... 47 shows that a standard deviation increase in waist-hip ratio above the mean increased mortality risk from ischemic ... soldiers measured by the United States Sanitary Commission, waist-hip ratio at young adult ages was an excellent predictor ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease : a national clinical guideline 
    Publication: Edinburgh, Scotland : Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), June 2017
    ... myocardial infarction. Smoking, history of hypertension or diabetes, waist:hip ratio, dietary pattern, physical activity, alcohol consumption, blood apolipoproteins ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health 
    Publication: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, 1988
    ... region. This distribution around the abdomen with increased waist-to-hip ratio, referred to as upper body obesity, is associated ... Accordingly, women with upper body obesity with a waist-to-hip ratio similar to that of men are, like men, ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health (pages 276-300) 
    Publication: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, 1988
    ... region. This distribution around the abdomen with increased waist-to-hip ratio, referred to as upper body obesity, is associated ... Accordingly, women with upper body obesity with a waist-to-hip ratio similar to that of men are, like men, ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General 
    Publication: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health, 1996
    ... association; relative to women Yes Adjustment for BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, at low levels of physical activity, women cigarette ... central body fat distribu- tion, such as the waist-to-hip ratio or the waist-to- thigh-circumference ratio. Biologic ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Technical specifications for submitting clinical trial data sets for treatment of ... 
    Publication: [Silver Spring, MD] : Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, January 2022
    ... Rate” and Baseline (breaths/min) VSBLFL = “Y” WHBL Waist to Hip Ratio at Num VS.VSSTRESN where VSTEST = “Waist to Hip Ratio” and Baseline VSBLFL = “Y” Baseline Lab Characteristics ALTBL ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (pages 151-175) 
    Publication: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health, 1996
    ... Folsom AR, Sellers TA, Kushi LH. Physical activity, waist-to-hip ratio, and other risk factors for ovarian cancer: a ... Matthews KA, Kuller LH, Meilahn EN, Plantinga P. Waist-to-hip ratio in middle-aged women: associa- tions with behavioral ...
  8. ... DIVAS received a tape measure (related to the waist-to-hip ratio lesson). All BUtiful promotional items were branded with ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (pages 126-150) 
    Publication: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health, 1996
    ... central body fat distribu- tion, such as the waist-to-hip ratio or the waist-to- thigh-circumference ratio. Biologic Plausibility Increase in ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - F as in fat : how obesity policies are failing in America : 2008 
    Publication: Washington, DC : Trust for America's Health, August 2008
    ... risk of to BMI, such as waist size, waist-to-hip ratio, “weight related health problems.”29 Several blood pressure, cholesterol level, and blood years ago, it was suggested to the World sugar.36 ... of waist circumference is another, and perhaps height, weight, and ...
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