Fischer, Beate and Sedlmeier, Anja M. and Hartwig, Saskia and Schlett, Christopher L. and Ahrens, Wolfgang and Bamberg, Fabian and Baurecht, Hansjoerg and Becher, Heiko and Berger, Klaus and Binder, Hans and Bohn, Barbara and Carr, Prudence R. and Castell, Stefanie and Franzke, Claus-Werner and Fricke, Julia and Gastell, Sylvia and Greiser, Karin Halina and Guenther, Kathrin and Jaeschke, Lina and Kaaks, Rudolf and Kemmling, Yvonne and Krist, Lilian and Kuss, Oliver and Legath, Nicole and Lieb, Wolfgang and Linseisen, Jakob and Loeffler, Markus and Michels, Karin B. and Mikolajczyk, Rafael and Niedermaier, Tobias and Norman, Kristina and Obi, Nadia and Peters, Annette and Pischon, Tobias and Schikowski, Tamara and Schipf, Sabine and Schmidt, Boerge and Schulze, Matthias B. and Stang, Andreas and Stojicic, Jelena and Tiller, Daniel and Voelzke, Henry and Waniek, Sabina and Leitzmann, Michael F. (2020) Anthropometric measures in the German National Cohort-more than weight and height. BUNDESGESUNDHEITSBLATT-GESUNDHEITSFORSCHUNG-GESUNDHEITSSCHUTZ, 63 (3). pp. 290-300. ISSN 1436-9990, 1437-1588
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High levels of adiposity in the population have a major impact on various diseases, but previous epidemiologic studies have largely been restricted to simple anthropometric measures such as the body mass index (BMI), an imperfect predictor of disease risk. There is a critical need for the use of improved measures of relative weight and body composition in large-scale, population-based research. The current article presents initial descriptive results of body composition and fat distribution based on the midterm baseline dataset of the German National Cohort, which included 101,817 participants who were examined in 18 study centers in Germany between March 2014 and March 2017. The anthropometric measures encompassed body weight, height, waist and hip circumference, bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), sonography of abdominal adipose tissue, 3D-body scanning, and magnetic resonance imaging. BMI analyses showed that 46.2% of men and 29.7% of women were overweight and 23.5% of men and 21.2% of women were obese. On average, women in almost all age groups demonstrated more subcutaneous adipose tissue layer thickness than men. The mean values of visceral adipose tissue layer thickness, on the other hand, were higher among men than among women in all age groups and increased continuously across age groups in both sexes. The comprehensive assessment of body composition and fat distribution provides novel future opportunities for detailed epidemiologic analyses of overweight and adiposity in relation to the development of chronic diseases.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BODY-MASS INDEX; BIOELECTRICAL-IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY; OBESITY PARADOX; CANCER; FAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; QUANTIFICATION; ASSOCIATION; VALIDATION; Anthropometry; Sonography of abdominal fat compartments; 3D body scanning; Magnetic resonance imaging; Population-based cohort |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2021 11:17 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2021 11:17 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45150 |
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