Amedi.sk
Dovoľujeme si Vás upozorniť, že naša web stránka
je určená iba pre odbornú lekársku verejnosť.
Časopis Internal medicine – Článok Waist-to-height ratio is an appropriate obesity indicator as a part of cardiovascular risk

Internal medicine

Peer - Reviewed Postgraduate Medical Journal.
Period 11x per year (july - august double issue)
1335-8359
The journal is indexed in the Slovak National Bibliography, Bibliographiia Medica Slovaca (BMS) and listed to citation database CiBaMed. All articles are reviewed. The publisher does not bear any responsibility for data and opinions of particular authors of the articles or advertisements. The articles on grey pages are company promotions or non reviewed information, an author is responsible for the content. Any reproduction of the content is allowed only with direct consent of the editorial office.
Predplatné
Internal medicine
Internal medicine
Peer - Reviewed Postgraduate Medical Journal.
Period 11x per year (july - august double issue)
Predplatné
Téma: Original Works

Waist-to-height ratio is an appropriate obesity indicator as a part of cardiovascular risk

Eva Kolesárová, Martin Janičko, Ivana Valočíková, Matej Kolesár, Alžbeta Petrovová

Introduction: Nowadays obesity is considered to be one of the main risk factors of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases. Determination of waist-to-height ratio is one of the possibilities how to establish central obesity. Present preventive strategies increasingly focus on an early detection of atherosclerosis indicators, where microalbuminuria also belongs. Aim: In our work we assessed indicators of abdominal obesity BMI, waist-to-height ratio and its relation to microalbuminuria. Group and method: The performed cross-sectional observation study in the group of 242 patients treated in the internal and nephrologic surgery for arterial hypertension, with/without complications, as diabetes mellitus type 2 and chronic kidney disease. In all patients we monitored waist, calculated BMI, ratio waist-to-height, 10 year risk of a fatal cardiovascular event according to the system SCORE, microalbuminuria, creatinine values, values of glomerular filtration and of lipid profile. Results: In our cohort, the waist-to-height ratio was related to microalbuminuria which was detected by albumin-creatinine ratio, namely in patients without diagnosis of chronic kidney diseases. In these patients we observed, in the group with microalbuminuria, distinctly higher values of waist-to-height ratio (median 0.61 [0.094] vs 0.69 [0.163]), p = 0.001. Similar results we found out also for BMI (median 29.1 [7.66] vs. 32.4 [10.8], p = 0.021). Neither in the whole cohort nor in any subgroup had we found any distinct relation waist-to-height ratio with 10 year risk of fatal CV event according to SCORE. Conclusion: In the submitted study we found out that waist-to-height ratio in the population of patients without chronic kidney disease ration might serve as an indicator of microalbuminuria and in figurative sense also of cardiological risk. It seems that waist-to-height ratio might be an important screening tool of cardiovascular risk, comparable with BMI.

cardiovascular risk, albumin/creatinine index, microalbuminuria, obesity, waist-to-height ratio
Interná med. 2013; 13 (10): 460-464

Ročník 2013  Témy časopisu Internal medicine 10 / 2013

Overview works

Jozef Lukáč
Zuzana Gdovinová
Ján Lazúr
Ján Sojak, Marián Sičák, Katarína Obtulovičová, Mikuláš Pura, Adrian Kališ
Mária Rašiová, Miriam Kozárová

Original Works

Eva Kolesárová, Martin Janičko, Ivana Valočíková, Matej Kolesár, Alžbeta Petrovová

Case Studies

Ján Čulák
Nie sú dostupné žiadne voľne dostupné články
CHAIRMAN OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
prof. MUDr. Ivica Lazúrová, CSc. FRCP

REPRESENTATIVE OF CHAIRMAN
prof. MUDr. Juraj Payer, CSc., FRCP

MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
doc. MUDr. Viera Fábryová, CSc.
MUDr. Viera Fedelešová, CSc.
prof. MUDr Martin Haluzík, CSc.
prof. MUDr. Štefan Hrušovský, CSc. Dr.SVS.
prof. MUDr. Rudolf Hyrdel, CSc.
doc. MUDr. Oľga Jurkovičová, CSc.
doc. MUDr. Zdenko Killinger, PhD.
doc. MUDr. Soňa Kiňová, PhD.
prof. MUDr. Peter Mitro, PhD.
doc. MUDr. Viliam Mojto, CSc., MHA
prof. MUDr. Karel Pacák, DrSc.
prof. MUDr. Juraj Payer, CSc., FRCP
doc. MUDr. Ján Podoba, CSc.
prof. MUDr. Igor Riečanský, DrSc.
doc. MUDr. Ján Staško, PhD.
doc. MUDr. Mária Szántová, PhD.
prof. MUDr. Ivan Tkáč, PhD.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Eva Stachová
e-mail: stachova@amedi.sk 

GRAPHIC LAYOUT AND TYPESETTING
Lucia Vecseiová
e-mail: dtp@amedi.sk 

MARKETING MANAGER
Ing. Dana Lakotová
mobil: 0903 224 625
e-mail: marketing@amedi.sk

ECONOMY AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
Ing. Mária Štecková
telefón: 02/55 64 72 48
mobil: 0911 117 949
e-mail: ekonom@amedi.sk

PROFESSIONAL PROOFREADING
doc. MUDr. Mária Szántová, PhD.

LANGUAGE PROOFREADING
Mgr. Eva Doktorová

PROOFREADING OF ENGLISH TEXTS
Mgr. Jana Bábelová
SECTIONS

OVERVIEW PAPERS
The latest knowledge on disease and disease groups aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnoses and therapy. Maximum size is 7 pages (font size 12, line spacing 1.5) with maximum six pictures (graphs). In case of more extensive theme it is possible to divide the paper to several parts after agreement with editorial office. Write the article with emphasis on its practical usage for out-patient internists and general practitionrs.

CASE STUDY
Maximum extent is 7 pages. Structuring: summary, introduction, case study, discussion, conclusion, bibliography.

DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTICAL ALGORITHMS
Diagnosis and therapy processed into tables and schemes, with minimum text, with emphasis on conciseness and clarity.

MISCELLANEOUS
Reaction to overview articles, news in the field of diagnostics, therapy, trial results (maximum 3 pages), reports from professional events, abstracts from scientific work published abroad, not older than 1 year. Maximum extend is 1 page. Write the title of the paper in Slovak/Czech, authors, workplace, then title of the paper in English with full citation.

APPENDIX - GENERAL MEDICINE
Intersectional theme elaborated complexly, well-arranged, clear (extent up to 12 pages).


MANUSCRIPT ELABORATION

Write the paper on computer in any common text editor.
write full length of lines (do not use ENTER at the end of a line)
- do not arrange text into columns
- do not do page make-up, put tables at the end of the paper
- distinguish precisely numbers 1, 0 and letters l, O
- use always parentheses ( )
- explain abbreviations always when first used


MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS

1. An accurate paper title, names and surnames of all authors including titles, authors` workplace. The first author address including the phone number, fax and e-mail address.

2. Summary - concise content summary in the extent maximum 10 lines (only at overview papers, case studies and Appendices - General Medicine). Write in 1st or 3rd person singular or plural (unify according the type of an article).

3. Key words - in the extent of 3-6 (only for overview papers and Appendices - General Medicine). 4. English translation: paper title, summary, key words (only at overview papers, and Appendices - General Medicine)

5. Text
If you insert pictures into a document, send also their original files in "jpg" format, create graphs in Excel and send also their original files. If you send photo documentation via post office, please, send just high-class originals. Mark each original by a number, under which it is mentioned in the text. Write in 1st or 3rd person singular or plural (unify according the type of an article).

6. Bibliography
Citations are numbered chronologically in bold, references in the text are stated by the number of citations in parentheses. Use maximum 20 citations.

Examples of citations:
1. Shaheen NJ, Crosby NA, Bozymski EM, et al. Is there publication bias in the reporting cancer risk in Barrett ́ esophagus? Gastroenterology 2000; 119: 333-338.
2. Stenestrand U, Wallentin L. Swedish Register of Cardiac Intensive Care (RIKS-HIA): Early statin treatment following acute myocardial infarction and 1-year survival. JAMA 2001; 285(4): 430-436.
3. LIPID Study Group. Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of initial cholesterol levels. N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1349-1357.
4. Jurkovičová O, Spitzerová H, Cagáň S. Komorové arytmie a náhla srdcová smrť pri akútnom infarkte myokardu. Bratisl Lek Listy 1997; 98: 379-389.
5. Osborne BE. The electrocardiogram of the rat. In: Budden R, Detweiler DK, Zbinden G. The rat electrocardiogram in pharmacology and toxicology. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1981: 15-27.

Do not use dots after first names in citations. Do not use colon but dot after names of authors. Use semi-colon after the year of publishing, colon is before pages. If an author is one, two or three - it is necessary to state all. If there are more than three authors it is necessary to write first three and "et all", in Slovak and Czech citations "a spol.".

Due to publishing of autodidactic tests it is necessary to add 4 questions to your article and 4 answers with marking of one correct answer, e.g.: Which of following factors is not related to rosacea?
a. genetic predisposition
b. Scandinavian origin
c. propionibacterium acnes
d. endothelial growth factor


The editorial board reserves the right to make small stylistic changes in the paper. If it is necessary to shorten the paper, the consent of the author will be required. All articles are double reviewed.

All published papers are paid.

Due to practical focus of the journal we would like to ask you to write the paper comprehensively, with emphasis on practical use of provided information in out-
patient internists and general practitioners.


Send contributions in the e-mail to the address: stachova@amedi.sk
Period 11x per year (july - august double issue)
1335-8359
The journal is indexed in the Slovak National Bibliography, Bibliographiia Medica Slovaca (BMS) and listed to citation database CiBaMed. All articles are reviewed. The publisher does not bear any responsibility for data and opinions of particular authors of the articles or advertisements. The articles on grey pages are company promotions or non reviewed information, an author is responsible for the content. Any reproduction of the content is allowed only with direct consent of the editorial office.
Predplatné
Internal medicine
Internal medicine
Peer - Reviewed Postgraduate Medical Journal.
Period 11x per year (july - august double issue)
Predplatné