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Waist Circumference and Metabolic Syndrome: A Review

Abdoljalal Marjani

Annual Research & Review in Biology · pp. 1211–1218 · Published 2 Jan 2014

10.9734/ARRB/2014/6811

Abstract

It is known that there is an increasing in prevalence of metabolic syndrome worldwide. The most investigated component of metabolic syndrome is waist circumference. The World Health Organization reported that waist circumference is the easiest and most efficient anthropometric index to be used in many studies. Waist circumference gives information on the general and abdominal obesities. Many different studies on waist circumference have been exhibited that it is a significant component of metabolic syndrome which is in relation to various diseases and risk factors for various ethnicities. It has been shown that waist circumference is a better predictor than body mass index in metabolic syndrome detection. The purpose of present review is to converse waist circumference variations in metabolic syndrome.

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