ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022
A Body Shape Index (ABSI) as a Variant of Conicity Index Not Affected by the Obesity Paradox: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Arterial Stiffness Parameter.
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- Association between body shape index and arterial stiffness: results of the EVasCu study and a meta-analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of exercise intervention on body morphology in obese college students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Correlation of Cardiometabolic Index With Premature Coronary Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Menopausal Women.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
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- Association of Visceral Obesity Indices With Survival Among Cancer Survivors: Evidence From Two Nationally Population-Based Cohort Study.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Association of the estimated glucose disposal rate combined with a body shape index with all-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality among individuals with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Article
- A Body Shape Index and asthma prevalence in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Triglyceride glucose index-a body shape index (TyG-ABSI) outperforms traditional obesity indices in predicting all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease: the mediating role of biological aging.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Article
- Association between the newly proposed triglyceride glucose-a body shape index (TyG-ABSI) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the general population: modest diagnostic improvement compared with traditional TyG-related parameters.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Article
- [The role of body roundness index and a body size index in the assessment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2026Article
- Association of triglyceride-glucose index (TyG) and a body shape index (ABSI) with cognitive decline and dementia risk.PloS one · 2026Article
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- A body shape index combined with the triglyceride-glucose index for cardiovascular risk prediction in overweight and obese Chinese adults.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Behavioral and dietary determinants of central adiposity assessed by ABSI in a mediterranean clinical sample.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Interaction of triglyceride glucose index and weight-adjusted waist circumference index in the risk of diabetes: from a national cohort study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2025Article
- Association of food insecurity with diet quality and anthropometric measurements among American elderly: results from 2017 to 2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Chronotype, Lifestyles, and Anthropometric and Biochemical Indices for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Among Obese Individuals.Nutrients · 2025Article
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Abstract
A body shape index (ABSI) is an abdominal obesity index developed based on epidemiological statistics and designed to correlate minimally with body mass index (BMI). We examined the approximation between ABSI and other abdominal obesity indices based on biophysical concepts. The cross-sectional data from 62,514 Japanese urban residents were analyzed. Body adiposity indices comprising BMI, waist circumference (WC), ABSI, conicity index (CI), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and WC/BMI ratio were examined. ABSI and CI more strongly correlated with age and arterial stiffness assessed by cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) compared to the other indices. The discriminative power for high CAVI (≥9.0) was the strongest for ABSI followed by CI and other indices, in that order. The range and distribution of WC corresponding to the cutoff of ABSI (0.0801), or CI (1.23) seemed reasonable. The correlation between ABSI and CI was the strongest compared to any other combination of indices. CI correlated moderately with BMI, whereas ABSI correlated minimally with BMI. ABSI correlates strongly and approximates closely with CI. Hence, ABSI may be considered to reflect the degree of body shape change from cylindricity to conicity and is currently the only abdominal obesity index not affected by the obesity paradox.
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