Central adiposity and increased risk of coronary artery disease mortality in older women

Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a 26-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Heart Study.

1983 • 4,204 citations

Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913.

1984 • 1,948 citations

Distribution of adipose tissue and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: a 12 year follow up of participants in the population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1984 • 1,702 citations

Relation of central obesity and insulin resistance with high diabetes prevalence and cardiovascular risk in South Asians

1991 • 1,636 citations

Seven Countries: A Multivariate Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease.

1980 • 1,450 citations

A Prospective Study of Obesity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

1990 • 1,429 citations

Estrogen and Coronary Heart Disease in Women

1991 • 1,237 citations

The Influence of Body Fat Distribution on the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus: 13.5 Years of Follow-up of the Participants in the Study of Men Born in 1913

1985 • 981 citations

A Prospective Study of Moderate Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Coronary Disease and Stroke in Women

1988 • 921 citations

Body weight and longevity. A reassessment

1987 • 540 citations

The seven countries study: 2,289 deaths in 15 years

1984 • 537 citations

Adiposity, Fat Distribution, and Cardiovascular Risk

1989 • 430 citations

The Associations between Obesity, Adipose Tissue Distribution and Disease

1987 • 405 citations

THE ASSOCIATION OF GIRTH MEASUREMENTS WITH DISEASE IN 32,856 WOMEN1

1984 • 387 citations

Body Weight and Longevity

1987 • 377 citations

CENTRAL OBESITY AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN MEN

1987 • 341 citations

Abdominal obesity is associated with an impaired fibrinolytic activity and elevated plasminogen activator inhibitor-1

1990 • 340 citations

The pattern of subcutaneous fat distribution in middle-aged men and the risk of coronary heart disease: the Paris Prospective Study.

1986 • 280 citations

Close correlation of intra-abdominal fat accumulation to hypertension in obese women.

1990 • 265 citations

Obesity, Atherosclerosis, and Coronary Artery Disease

1985 • 246 citations

Associations of Body Mass and Fat Distribution with Sex Hormone Concentrations in Postmenopausal Women

1991 • 228 citations

The association of body fat distribution with hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, coronary heart disease, diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in men and women aged 18–79 years

1987 • 223 citations

Increased incidence of diabetes mellitus in relation to abdominal adiposity in older women

1991 • 180 citations

ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF SELF-MEASUREMENT OF BODY GIRTHS

1988 • 159 citations

Body fat distribution, blood pressure, and hypertension

1990 • 158 citations

Alcohol and cardiovascular disease: the Hawaiian experience.

1981 • 143 citations

Correlation of intraabdominal fat accumulation and left ventricular performance in obesity

1989 • 116 citations

Estrogen and coronary heart disease in women

1992 • 99 citations

Body fat distribution in relation to serum lipids and blood pressure in 38-year-old European men: the European fat distribution study

1991 • 88 citations

Central adipose distribution is related to coronary atherosclerosis.

1991 • 87 citations

Relation of high plasma triglyceride levels associated with obesity and regional adipose tissue distribution to plasma lipoprotein-lipid composition in premenopausal women.

1989 • 78 citations

DECREASED SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN (SHBG) AND INSULIN‐LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN (IGFBP‐1) IN EXTREME OBESITY

1990 • 69 citations

Association of body fat distribution with plasma lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoproteins AI and B in postmenopausal women

1988 • 64 citations

Body Fat Distribution and Self-Reported Prevalence of Hypertension, Heart Attack, and Other Heart Disease in Older Women

1989 • 60 citations

Relationship of body fat distribution to the metabolic clearance of insulin in premenopausal women.

1987 • 58 citations

Fat distribution as a risk factor for weight and eating concerns

1990 • 43 citations

Smoking, pulmonary function, and mortality

1990 • 31 citations

Abdominal Obesity and Risk

1990 • 21 citations

Skinfold and body circumferences as measures of body fat patterning in a French female active population: Relationships with the metabolic risk profile

1991 • 18 citations

Body fat distribution, serum lipoproteins and blood pressure in middle-aged Finnish men and women.

1990 • 16 citations

Is cortisol involved in upper-body obesity?

1989 • 4 citations