Sentence examples for Relative waist from inspiring English sources
Thus, WIWDR and WTLR may provide a better assessment of increased relative waist circumference and overall body fat in dogs.
The relative waist circumference may provide a basis for future staging systems for dogs with heart disease, to which further discriminatory variables might be added.
To compare abdominal obesity of healthy versus heart disease dogs, the relative waist circumference was assessed using three different ratios (WIWDR, WHSDR, and WTLR).
In the present study, measurement of subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat was performed in only 17 cases, thus limiting the strength of the comparison of relative waist circumference with computed tomographic information.
Increased relative waist circumference, especially a WIWDR greater than 3.6 or a WTLR greater than 1.2, may provide useful means of assessing cardiovascular disease risk status associated with the presence of an abdominal obesity in dogs.
However, the main objective of the present study was to establish the performance of relative waist circumference parameters (WIWDR and WTLR) compared with conventional parameters such as body condition score.
Those of a more biologically deterministic frame of mind suggest that wide hips, relative to waist size, are good for child bearing, and that large breasts deliver more milk.
By a special design, an adjustable pump laser waist relative to the probe laser waist was implemented, while some key elements for both detection modes were optimized.
Morris RW, Taylor AE, Fluharty ME, et al. Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis.
In addition, the desire of many smokers to use smoking as a means of weight control 2 might be counterproductive if a loss of weight is accompanied by a relative increase in waist circumference: this possibility could be used in counselling people seeking to quit smoking.
Salma Hayek and the Venus de Milo also have small waists relative to the size of their hips.
