Waist-to-height ratio may be a usefulanthropometric predictor of metabolicsyndrome (MetS) in patients onmaintenance hemodialysis (HD), a newstudy suggests. 

Jacqueline Costa Teixeira Caramori,MD, PhD, and colleagues at the UniversidadeEstadual Paulista in São Paulo,Brazil, conducted a cross-sectionalstudy of 98 maintenance HD patients(mean age 57.8 years, 54% male). MetS was present in 74.5% of the cohort.Patients with MetS had increasedaccumulation of abdominal fat andgeneral obesity. Waist-to-height ratiowas the best independent predictor ofMetS, followed by waist circumferenceand body mass index, the researchersreported in Nutrition in Clinical Practice(published online ahead of print).

From the October 01, 2015 Issue of Renal and Urology News

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Dialysis Metabolic Disorders