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| Title |
A proposal for a primary screening tool: `Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height’
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0207-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Margaret Ashwell, Sigrid Gibson |
| Abstract |
There is now overwhelming scientific evidence that central obesity, as opposed to total obesity assessed by body mass index (BMI), is associated with the most health risks and that the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a simple proxy for this central fat distribution. This Opinion reviews the evidence for the use of WHtR to predict mortality and for its association with morbidity. A boundary value of WHtR of 0.5 has been proposed and become widely used. This translates into the simple screening message 'Keep your waist to less than half your height'. Not only does this message appear to be suitable for all ethnic groups, it also works well with children. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 77 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 16 | 21% |
| United States | 15 | 19% |
| Australia | 3 | 4% |
| Chile | 3 | 4% |
| South Africa | 2 | 3% |
| Japan | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 1% |
| Honduras | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 20 | 26% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 49 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 12 | 16% |
| Scientists | 12 | 16% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 184 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 181 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 38 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 9% |
| Researcher | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 39 | 21% |
| Unknown | 50 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 52 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 16 | 9% |
| Sports and Recreations | 10 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 8% |
| Unknown | 58 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 April 2022.
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#591,247
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#432
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#6,328
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#11
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Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,076 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 46.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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