TY - JOUR
T1 - Skinfold thickness and cardiovascular risk factors in American and Japanese telephone company executives
AU - Jones, Camille A.
AU - Klag, Michael J.
AU - Sakai, Yoshimichi
AU - Itoh, Ichiro
AU - Comstock, George W.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Supported in part by NIH NHLBI Research Service Award #5 T32 HL07180-15 with computational assistance from NIH Grant RROOO35. Dr. Klag is an Established Investigator of the American Heart
PY - 1992/4
Y1 - 1992/4
N2 - Data from a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular disease risk factors in 962 US and 827 Japanese male telephone company executives were used to determine the associations of skinfold thickness measurements (abdominal, subscapular, triceps, ulnar) with blood pressure, blood glucose, serum cholesterol, and serum triglycerides. These associations were assessed within each group of executives and were compared between the groups. Most skinfolds showed association with risk factors in univariate regression. After adjusting for age and body mass index, the abdominal skinfold continued to be significantly associated with blood pressure and triglycerides in both groups, while the subscapular skinfold showed associations only with triglycerides. After adjustment, the peripheral skinfolds showed no association with risk factors in the US men, however, in the Japanese men the ulnar skinfold continued to be associated with blood pressure. These findings suggest that abdominal and ulnar skinfold measurement may be useful in adjusting for the effect of obesity on coronary heart disease risk in epidemiological studies.
AB - Data from a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular disease risk factors in 962 US and 827 Japanese male telephone company executives were used to determine the associations of skinfold thickness measurements (abdominal, subscapular, triceps, ulnar) with blood pressure, blood glucose, serum cholesterol, and serum triglycerides. These associations were assessed within each group of executives and were compared between the groups. Most skinfolds showed association with risk factors in univariate regression. After adjusting for age and body mass index, the abdominal skinfold continued to be significantly associated with blood pressure and triglycerides in both groups, while the subscapular skinfold showed associations only with triglycerides. After adjustment, the peripheral skinfolds showed no association with risk factors in the US men, however, in the Japanese men the ulnar skinfold continued to be associated with blood pressure. These findings suggest that abdominal and ulnar skinfold measurement may be useful in adjusting for the effect of obesity on coronary heart disease risk in epidemiological studies.
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U2 - 10.1093/ije/21.2.229
DO - 10.1093/ije/21.2.229
M3 - Article
C2 - 1428474
AN - SCOPUS:0026503412
SN - 0300-5771
VL - 21
SP - 229
EP - 235
JO - International journal of epidemiology
JF - International journal of epidemiology
IS - 2
ER -