Comparison of Various Anthropometric Indices as Risk Factors for Hearing Impairment in Asian Women

The objective of the present study was to examine the associations between various anthropometric measures and metabolic syndrome and hearing impairment in Asian women. We identified 11,755 women who underwent voluntary routine health checkups at Yeungnam University Hospital between June 2008 and Ap...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2015-11, Vol.10 (11), p.e0143119-e0143119
Hauptverfasser:	Kang, Seok Hui, Jung, Da Jung, Lee, Kyu Yup, Choi, Eun Woo, Do, Jun Young
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Age Aged Anthropometry Area Under Curve Asian Continental Ancestry Group Auditory Threshold Body Mass Index Body measurements Cholesterol Diabetes Fasting Female Hearing loss Hearing Loss - complications Hearing Loss - diagnosis Hip Hormone replacement therapy Hospitals Humans Hypertension Identification methods Impairment Insulin Internal medicine Laboratories Linear Models Medicine Metabolic syndrome Metabolic Syndrome - complications Metabolic Syndrome - diagnosis Middle Aged Nephrology Obesity Otolaryngology Patients Predictive Value of Tests Public health Regression analysis Risk analysis Risk Factors ROC Curve Sensitivity Systematic review Thresholds Waist Circumference Waist-Hip Ratio Women Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:	The objective of the present study was to examine the associations between various anthropometric measures and metabolic syndrome and hearing impairment in Asian women. We identified 11,755 women who underwent voluntary routine health checkups at Yeungnam University Hospital between June 2008 and April 2014. Among these patients, 2,485 participants were
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0143119