Title: | General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants |
Authors: | 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 Woodward, Mark 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 N McGarvey, Stephen T Shaw, Jonathan E Söderberg, Stefan Soto-Mota, Luis Adrián Wang, Junyang Zaccardi, Francesco Abarca-Gómez, Leandra Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen Abdrakhmanova, Shynar Abdul Ghaffar, Suhaila Abdul Rahim, Hanan F 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 Amiano Etxezarreta, Pilar Amougou, Norbert Andersen, Lars Bo Anderssen, Sigmund A Androutsos, Odysseas Anjana, Ranjit Mohan Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza Anufrieva, Elena Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer Aris, Tahir Arku, Raphael E Arlappa, Nimmathota Aryal, Krishna K Assah, Felix K Assembekov, Batyrbek Assunção, Maria Cecília F Auvinen, Juha Avdičová, Mária Azad, Kishwar Azevedo, Ana Azimi-Nezhad, Mohsen Azizi, Fereidoun Bacopoulou, Flora Bahijri, Suhad Bajramovic, Izet Balakrishna, Nagalla Bamoshmoosh, Mohamed Banach, Maciej Bandosz, Piotr Banegas, José R Baran, Rafał Barbagallo, Carlo M Barbosa Filho, Valter Barceló, Alberto Baretić, Maja Barnoya, Joaquin Barrera, Lena Barros, Aluisio JD Barros, Mauro Virgílio 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 Benitez Rolandi, Gilda Estela Benzeval, Michaela Bere, Elling Berger, Nicolas Bergh, Ingunn Holden Berkinbayev, Salim Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio Bettiol, Heloísa Beybey, Augustin F Bezerra, Jorge Bhagyalaxmi, Aroor Bhargava, Santosh K Bika Lele, Elysée Claude Bikbov, Mukharram M Bista, Bihungum Bjelica, Dusko J Bjerregaard, Peter Bjertness, Espen Bjertness, Marius B Björkelund, Cecilia Bloch, Katia V Blokstra, Anneke Bo, Simona Bobak, Martin Boddy, Lynne M Boehm, Bernhard O Boggia, Jose G Bogova, Elena Bonaccio, Marialaura Bonilla-Vargas, Alice Borghs, Herman Botomba, Steve Bourne, Rupert Boymatova, Khadichamo 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Issue Date: | Aug-2024 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Journal: | The Lancet |
Abstract: | 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). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/31419 |
DOI: | 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)01405-3 |
Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Medicine: Journal Articles
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