BMI May Be Better Than Waist Circumference for Defining Metabolic Syndrome in Japanese Women
- Masaru Sakurai, MD, PHD12,
- Toshinari Takamura, MD, PHD1,
- Katsuyuki Miura, MD, PHD2,
- Shuichi Kaneko, MD, PHD1 and
- Hideaki Nakagawa, MD, PHD2
- 1Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
- 2Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan
- Address correspondence to Dr. Toshinari Takamura, Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan. E-mail: ttakamura{at}m-kanazawa.jp
We previously addressed sex differences in the associations between anthropometric indexes of obesity and blood pressure and showed that blood pressure was more strongly related to BMI than to waist circumference in Japanese women (1). As hypertension is a major component of metabolic syndrome in Japanese patients, a similar sex difference may exist in the association between anthropometric indexes and the metabolic components of metabolic syndrome. We investigated the possible sex differences of these associations.
Study subjects consisted of 2,935 men and …
