Waist-to-Hip Ratio in a Biracial Population

Do Upper-Body and Centralized Adiposity Measure Different Aspects of Regional Body-Fat Distribution? Relationship to Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Lipids, and Lipoproteins

Steven M. Haffner, Michael P. Stern, Helen P. Hazuda et al. · Diabetes · 1987 · 301 citations

Hyperinsulinemia, upper body adiposity, and cardiovascular risk factors in non-diabetics

Steven M. Haffner, Donald S. Fong, Helen P. Hazuda et al. · Metabolism · 1988 · 256 citations

Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolic Disorder +7

Waist to hip ratio in middle-aged women. Associations with behavioral and psychosocial factors and with changes in cardiovascular risk factors.

RR Wing, Karen A. Matthews, Lewis H. Kuller et al. · Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis A Journal of Vascular Biology · 1991 · 203 citations

Physical Activity, Healthy Women Study, Anthropometric Indicator +19

Is Abdominal Body Fat Distribution a Major Explanation for the Sex Difference in the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction?

Bo Larsson, Calle Bengtsson, Per Björntorp et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1992 · 201 citations

Cardiometabolic Risk, Anthropometric Indicator, Major Explanation +27

Regional Patterns of Fat Distribution

PER BÖRNTORP · Annals of Internal Medicine · 1985 · 183 citations

Global Distribution, Anthropometric Indicator, Obesity +17