Body mass index and waist circumference predict health-related quality of life, but not satisfaction with life, in the elderly

L Wang, JD Crawford, S Reppermund, J Trollor… - Quality of Life …, 2018 - Springer
… quality of life in the general adult population, the prospective effects … as an indicator of self-rated
well-being, in contrast to the … of a kilogram, and height was measured with a stadiometer. …

[HTML][HTML] Waist circumference is a better predictor than body mass index of coronary heart disease risk in overweight premenopausal women

I Lofgren, K Herron, T Zern, K West, M Patalay… - The Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
measured in pounds to the nearest 0.5 lb and height was … Stride length was adjusted for
each participant to ensure … in young adults; however, this study found discrepancies in the …

[HTML][HTML] Body-composition assessment via air-displacement plethysmography in adults and children: a review

DA Fields, MI Goran, MA McCrory - The American journal of clinical …, 2002 - Elsevier
… is body surface area calculated from body weight and height … In contrast with traditional
pulmonary plethysmography in … in body mass measured in water, residual lung volume (V R ), …

Effects of obesity on respiratory function

CS Ray, DY Sue, G Bray, JE Hansen… - … Review of Respiratory …, 1983 - atsjournals.org
… /height ratio greater than 0.64 kg/cm, we feel that they were … relatively young adults,
measurements of most respiratory function … The effect of age, body size and lung volume change …

Effects of obesity and fat distribution on ventilatory function: the normative aging study

R Lazarus, D Sparrow, ST Weiss - Chest, 1997 - Elsevier
… thickness, abdominal girth, and the ratio of abdominal girth to … , is inversely related to
spirometry and static lung volumes. In … measure that is largely independent of height in adults. …

Estimation of appendicular skeletal muscle mass for women aged 60-70 years using a machine learning approach

J Shi, Q He, Y Pan, X Zhang, M Li, S Chen - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
… WHR was calculated as waist circumference divided by hip circumference, which was rounded
to … When is sitting height a better measure of adult body size than total … , and lung volume

[HTML][HTML] Are waist circumference and body mass index independently associated with cardiovascular disease risk in Chinese adults?

RP Wildman, D Gu, K Reynolds, X Duan, X Wu… - The American journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
… a wall-mounted metal tape was used to measure height. … However, these data contrast
those from a worksite sample of … of BMI and waist circumference provides more information …

Fat distribution and end-expiratory lung volume in lean and obese men and women

TG Babb, BL Wyrick, DS DeLorey, PJ Chase, MY Feng - Chest, 2008 - Elsevier
… distribution in otherwise healthy obese adults. Furthermore, because … Standard measures of
height and weight were made at the … In contrast to our hypothesis, the reduction in EELV was …

Current status of body composition assessment in sport: review and position statement on behalf of the ad hoc research working group on body composition health …

TR Ackland, TG Lohman, J Sundgot-Borgen… - Sports medicine, 2012 - Springer
… hydrostatic pressure affects measured lung volumes. … height, body mass and sitting height
can easily be measuredSitting height or leg length is as easy to measure as stature[91] and …

Are adult physiques geometrically similar? The dangers of allometric scaling using body mass power laws

AM Nevill, AD Stewart, T Olds… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… the mass exponents associated with girth measurements taken … In contrast, the ANCOVA
of the log-transformed corrected … of lower-limb length (stature − sitting height) as a function of …