Neck circumference may be a valuable tool for screening individuals with obesity: findings from a young Chinese population and a meta-analysis - Pei, Xiaoting; Liu, Li; Imam, Mustapha Umar; Lu, Ming; Chen, Yanzi; Sun, Panpan; Guo, Yaxin; Xu, Yiping; Ping, Zhiguang; Fu, Xiaoli (BMC public health, 2018)
Keywords: Abdomen; Adolescent; Adult; Ascites; Biostatistics; Body fat; Body mass index; Body size; Body weight; Cardiovascular diseases; Central obesity; China; Chronic Disease epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographic aspects; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diagnosis; Disease; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Female; Females; Humans; Hypertension; Male; Mass Screening - methods; Measurement; Medical screening; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Meta-analysis; Metabolic disorders; Metabolic syndrome; Neck; Neck - anatomy & histology; Neck circumference; Obesity; Obesity - diagnosis; Overweight; Overweight/obesity; Physical examinations; Physiological aspects; Pregnancy; Public Health; Questionnaires; Receiver operator characteristic curve; Research Article; Sample size; Sensitivity analysis; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sex differences; Studies; Surveys; Vaccine; Young Adult; China; Neck circumference; Receiver operator characteristic curve; Overweight/obesity; Central obesity