Wenzhen Ge1, Faruque Parvez2, Fen Wu1, Tariqul Islam3, Alauddin Ahmed3, Ishrat Shaheen3, Golam Sarwar3, Ryan T Demmer4, Moise Desvarieux5, Habibul Ahsan6, Yu Chen7. 1. Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 2. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. 3. Columbia University Arsenic Research Project, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 4. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 5. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; INSERM, UMR-S 707, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France; École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Paris and Rennes, France. 6. Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: habib@uchicago.edu. 7. Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: yu.chen@nyumc.org.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Anthropometric measures such as waist-hip-ratio (WHR), waist-height-ratio (WHtR), waist circumference, Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), and upper thigh circumference, have been linked to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, their relationships with subclinical atherosclerosis are unclear. Studies in normal-weight populations, especially in Asian countries where leanness is prevalent, are lacking. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the associations of WHR, WHtR, waist circumference, hip circumference, body mass index (BMI), MUAC and upper thigh circumference with carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) among 562 middle-aged participants free of CVD in rural Bangladesh. RESULTS: After adjusting for age and sex, WHR and waist circumference but not BMI showed a positive significant association with cIMT. In multivariate analysis, each standard deviation (SD) increase of WHR (0.08) or WHtR (0.07) was associated with an 8.96 μm (95% CI, 1.12-16.81) or 11.45 μm (95%CI, 0.86-22.04) difference in cIMT, respectively, after controlling for age, sex, BMI, smoking status, education level, and systolic blood pressure (SBP). The associations of WHR and WHtR with cIMT were independent of the influence of other anthropometric measures. The associations of other anthropometric measures and cIMT were not apparent. CONCLUSIONS: In our relatively lean, healthy Asian population, WHR and WHtR appear to be better predictors of early atherosclerosis than other common surrogates of adiposity.
BACKGROUND: Anthropometric measures such as waist-hip-ratio (WHR), waist-height-ratio (WHtR), waist circumference, Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), and upper thigh circumference, have been linked to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, their relationships with subclinical atherosclerosis are unclear. Studies in normal-weight populations, especially in Asian countries where leanness is prevalent, are lacking. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the associations of WHR, WHtR, waist circumference, hip circumference, body mass index (BMI), MUAC and upper thigh circumference with carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) among 562 middle-aged participants free of CVD in rural Bangladesh. RESULTS: After adjusting for age and sex, WHR and waist circumference but not BMI showed a positive significant association with cIMT. In multivariate analysis, each standard deviation (SD) increase of WHR (0.08) or WHtR (0.07) was associated with an 8.96 μm (95% CI, 1.12-16.81) or 11.45 μm (95%CI, 0.86-22.04) difference in cIMT, respectively, after controlling for age, sex, BMI, smoking status, education level, and systolic blood pressure (SBP). The associations of WHR and WHtR with cIMT were independent of the influence of other anthropometric measures. The associations of other anthropometric measures and cIMT were not apparent. CONCLUSIONS: In our relatively lean, healthy Asian population, WHR and WHtR appear to be better predictors of early atherosclerosis than other common surrogates of adiposity.
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