Anthropometric Measurements and Body Silhouette of Women

Téhard, B; Liere, Marti van; Clavel-Chapelon, F.

doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(02)90381-0

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“…Self-reported body silhouette had a good agreement with observed body silhouette in other studies (15)(16)(17)(18) . In addition, the validation study showed good agreement between reported and measured BMI and perceived and observed body silhouettes.…”

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The association between body shape silhouette and dietary pattern among Mexican women

Romieu

Escamilla-Núñez

Sánchez-Zamorano

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Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between dietary patterns and selfperceived body shape silhouette and BMI in a sample of Mexican women. Design: A cross-sectional analysis of dietary habits from baseline data of a large cohort study (EsMaestra) (1) ) and to 71?9 % in 2006 (2) . This represents a 41 % and 160 % increase in prevalence of overweight and obesity, respectively, in just a decade (3) . Among adults, obesity is more prevalent among women than among men. In 2006, 36?9 % of women were obese (BMI $30?0 kg/m 2 ), whereas only 23?5 % of men belonged to the obese group (3) . A total of 35?1 % of Mexican adult women are estimated to be at risk for excessive carbohydrate intake and 12?6 % are deemed to be at risk for excessive fat intake (4) . In women over 60 years of age, overweight and obesity rates are even higher -approximately 40 % are overweight and 35?5 % are obese -and a high prevalence of hypertension and diabetes is observed (5) .Moreover, it appears that Mexicans have genetic susceptibility to insulin resistance and to altered carbohydrate and lipid metabolism (6) . It is therefore important to determine dietary factors that are most strongly associated with obesity in this population to provide public awareness and prevention strategies.

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confidence: 83%

The association between body shape silhouette and dietary pattern among Mexican women

Romieu

Escamilla-Núñez

Sánchez-Zamorano

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Recent studies have shown good correlations between self-reported measurements of corpulence (such as BMI) and measurements by technicians. 35,36 We conducted our own validation study in the E3N cohort 37 that showed no significant differences between the anthropometric characteristics self-reported on a questionnaire and the same characteristics measured by technicians during a short interview. We also found, 37 like many other studies, [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] that obese subjects tend to underestimate their real anthropometric characteristics.…”

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Several anthropometric measurements and breast cancer risk: results of the E3N cohort study

Téhard

Clavel‐Chapelon

2005

Int J Obes

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Objective: To investigate the association between various anthropometric characteristics and breast cancer. Design: Longitudinal prospective cohort study. Follow-up between 1995 and 2000. Subjects: In total, 69 116 women (age: 45-70 years; mean follow-up: 3.6 years), 275 premenopausal and 860 postmenopausal incident invasive breast cancers. Measurements: Self-reported height, weight, breast, thorax, waist and hip circumferences and calculated body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) at baseline. Results: A slight increase in risk with increasing height was found. Weight, BMI, thorax and waist circumferences and WHR were negatively related to breast cancer risk among premenopausal women. The relationships became non significant after additional adjustment for BMI. An increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer with an android body shape (WHR40.87) might possibly be confined to obese women. Among postmenopausal women, all anthropometric measurements of corpulence were positively associated with breast cancer risk but became non significant after additional adjustment for BMI. No difference in risk of postmenopausal breast cancer according to HRT use was observed.

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“…However, a validation study comparing self-reported measurements to those made by a trained nurse proved them to be very reliable: 45 except for height (r ¼ 0.56) correlation coefficients that were higher than 0.80 for all the anthropometric factors analyzed, with a maximum of 0.94 for weight. BMI correlation coefficient was 0.78.…”

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Hip circumference is associated with the risk of premenopausal ER−/PR− breast cancer

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Objective: We evaluated the relationship between hip and waist circumferences (HCs, WCs), waist-to-hip ratio, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) and breast cancer risk according to menopausal status of women and cancer hormone receptor status. Design: We used data from the French E3N longitudinal prospective cohort. Subjects: In the total population of 63 726 women who were analyzed, 1887 breast cancer cases were diagnosed during follow-up. Results: Among postmenopausal women, the risk of ER þ /PR þ breast cancer increased with increasing weight, BMI, and both HCs and WCs, although these two associations disappeared after adjustment for BMI. No association was seen with ERÀ/PRÀ breast cancers. Among premenopausal women, among the different factors studied, HC only (no association was observed for any of the different factors studied except for HC) was associated with an increased risk of ER þ /PR þ breast cancer after adjustment for BMI (hazard ratio (HR) ¼ 1.65; (1.04-2.62) when comparing the highest to lowest tertile; P-trend across tertiles ¼ 0.03) and of ERÀ/PRÀ breast cancer both before and after adjustment for BMI (HR ¼ 2.85 (1.33-6.13); P-trend o0.01, and HR ¼ 3.13 (1.19-8.27) P-trend ¼ 0.02, respectively). In the latter group, the association with HC was observed whatever the WC (HR ¼ 2.81 (1.18-6.70) and HR ¼ 2.79 (1.16-6.76) in women with high HC/low WC and high HC/high WC, respectively). Conclusion: The increase in risk of premenopausal breast cancer associated with large HC for both ER þ /PR þ and ERÀ/PRÀ subtypes may provide insight into a specific risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer.

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Anthropometric Measurements and Body Silhouette of Women

Cited by 150 publications

References 32 publications

The association between body shape silhouette and dietary pattern among Mexican women

The association between body shape silhouette and dietary pattern among Mexican women

Several anthropometric measurements and breast cancer risk: results of the E3N cohort study

Hip circumference is associated with the risk of premenopausal ER−/PR− breast cancer

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