Waist to hip ratio measure of body size and composition ... procedure: A simple calculation of the measurements of the waist girth divided by the hip girth. Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR) = Gw / Gh,

The authors previously reported an interaction of waist/hip ratio and family history on the risk of breast cancer in the Iowa Women's Health Study.

Physical activity and energy intake selectively predict the waist-to-hip ratio in men but not in women1–,2,3...

Key Words: Type 2 diabetes • North American Indians • body fat distribution • obesity • abdominal adiposity • waist-to-hip ratio • body mass index...

For PRL and estradiol a significant increase with gynecological age was only documented in the regular menstrual cycle group and for waist to hip ratio only in the irregular menstrual cycle group.

Rexrode et al, 1998). However, waist-to-hip ratio is considered an artificial term with no biological meaning, and it does not usefully reflect fat distribution or health better than...

For hip circumference, ... The minimal improvement that might result from the use of waist-to-height ratio was not felt to be sufficient to recommend the calculation of a ratio value.

A waist hip ratio of greater than 1.0 is high for men; a ratio of greater than 0.95 is high for women (others use a lower ratio as the definition of high - 0.9 for men, 0.8 for women).. ... Lists/Tables

Thus, waist-hip ratio (WHR), a useful proxy for the ratio ... Thus, multiple linear regression was used to control for race/ethnicity, family income, and other such predictors (results in Tables 2 4).

Tables 1 and 2 present the results of age-adjusted analysis. ... Huang Z, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Rosner B, Speizer FE, Hankinson SE: Waist circumference, waist:hip ratio,