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Hispanics had the highest waist circumference but otherwise did not exhibit differences in individual MetS components compared with non Hispanic whites and non Hispanic blacks.
Compared with patients with the highest BMI and lowest waist circumference, those with the highest waist circumference and lowest BMI had the highest HR of CKD.
The majority of Look AHEAD participants had a BMI ≥30 kg/m, and 72% of participants in the highest BMI quartile were also in the highest waist circumference quartile.
Among men and women, there was a significant association between the three levels of LTPA and waist circumference the inactive group had the highest waist circumference and the high LTPA group the lowest (Additional file 1, model 1).
In the NHS cohort, after adjustment for BMI and potential confounders, the RRs across the lowest to the highest waist circumference quintiles were 1.00, 1.11, 1.17, 1.31, and 1.79 (95% CI, 1.47 1.98) for all-cause mortality.
It is interesting that there was an opposite but augmentative association of CC and WC with carotid atherosclerosis, which was 0.0 and 5.3% in men and women, respectively, in the highest calf quartile and the lowest waist quartile, against 42.9 and 30.0% in the lowest calf quartile and the highest waist quartile.
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