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previous research we showed that high systolic BP was associated with abdominal obesity ( 9 ), and with the macrophage-derived inflammatory marker soluble 163 ( 29 ). We also previously found that depression, smoking and physical inactivity were associated
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Introduction The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is nowadays frequently used to identify individuals at higher risk for future type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) ( 1 ). Recognized metabolic risk components are abdominal obesity
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pediatric population was diagnosed according to the modified ATP III criteria of Cruz et al . (6) using the percentile values for age and sex ( Table 1 ). MS is defined as having at least three of the following five abnormalities: abdominal obesity
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the prevalence of self-reported depression, abdominal obesity, general obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, cardiovascular complications, antidepressants, oral antidiabetic drugs (OADs) in addition to insulin, lipid lowering drugs (LLDs) or
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liver may be responsible for the compensatory activation of the HPA axis. Women with abdominal obesity phenotype have an exaggerated ACTH and cortisol response to combined CRH/AVP (corticotropin-releasing hormone/arginine vasopressin) stimulation ( 40
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, abdominal obesity, and higher levels of PTH. 4 Turer ( 37 ), 2013 USA; White, African American, Latino, others Cross-sectional 12292 F/M 6–18 Children who were enrolled in the 2003–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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) . Obesity was defined as BMI SDS over 2. The WC values ≥90th percentile for age and gender were used to identify children and adolescents with abdominal obesity in accordance with the International Obesity Task Force cutoff values for obesity (17
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that central (abdominal) obesity, one of the important patterns of obesity, is also closely linked to PCOS ( 17 , 18 , 19 ). However, regarding PCOS, studies exploring the potential association between plasma AMH and central obesity are limited
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in its incapacity to discern between adipose tissue and lean mass, as well as between central and peripheral fat deposition. WC serves as an indicator of abdominal obesity, albeit its failure to differentiate between subcutaneous and visceral fat, is