The association between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with diabetes in the PERSIAN Guilan cohort study population

Autor: Masoome Aghaei, Farahnaz Joukar, Soheil Hasanipour, Zahra Abbasi Ranjbar, Mohammadreza Naghipour, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: BMC Endocrine Disorders, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1472-6823
DOI: 10.1186/s12902-024-01641-1
Popis: Abstract Background Waist circumference (WC), or waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), potentially offers a more accurate reflection of intra-abdominal fat accumulation and could serve as a superior predictor of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk compared to BMI. The current study investigated the relationship between WHR and its influencing factors among diabetes patients enrolled in the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran (PERSIAN) Guilan Cohort study (PGCS). Method In this cross-sectional study of 10,520 participants, 2,531 had T2DM. Waist and hip circumference, body mass index (BMI), underlying diseases, and demographical data of participants were recorded. Also, fasting blood sugar (FBS), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and triglycerides (TG) were assessed. All data was analyzed using SPSS version 16; the significant level was
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