Validity of "One-size-fits-all" Approaches for the National Health Screening and Education Program: A Large-scale Cohort Study of Corporate Insurance Beneficiaries

• Published in: Internal Medicine Vol. 60; no. 11; pp. 1681 - 1689
• Main Authors: Kikuchi, Kyoko, Imaizumi, Takahiro, Ando, Masahiko, Kato, Sawako, Kondo, Takaaki, Honda, Hiroyuki, Yoshida, Yasuko, Maruyama, Shoichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 01.06.2021; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: abdominal circumference; adiposity; Age groups; Arteriosclerosis; Body mass index; Cohort analysis; Gender; Internal medicine; Lifestyles; Medical screening; Metabolic syndrome; Original; Physical activity; risk factors; Smoking; universal health screening; Abdominal circumference; Adiposity; Metabolic syndrome; Universal health screening; Risk factors

Objective Metabolic syndrome represents a unified condition of atherosclerotic diseases caused by abdominal obesity. The aims of this study were to examine the applicability of the prevalent fixed cut-off values of the abdominal circumference (AC) and body mass index (BMI) to age and gender groups a...