Correlation between Neck Circumference and Other Anthropometric Measurements in Eight Latin American Countries. Results from ELANS Study

Reyna Liria-Domínguez, Marcela Pérez-Albela, María-Paz Vásquez, Georgina Gómez, Irina Kovalskys, Mauro Fisberg, Lilia Yadira Cortés, Martha Cecilia Yépez García, Marianella Herrera-Cuenca, Attilio Rigotti, Gerson Ferrari, Rossina G. Pareja and on behalf of the ELANS Study Group
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Reyna Liria-Domínguez: Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima 15026, Peru
Marcela Pérez-Albela: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas-UPC, Lima 15067, Peru
María-Paz Vásquez: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas-UPC, Lima 15067, Peru
Georgina Gómez: Departamento de Bioquímica, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
Irina Kovalskys: Carrera de Nutrición, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires C1107 AAZ, Argentina
Mauro Fisberg: Centro de Excelencia em Nutrição e Dificuldades Alimentaes (CENDA), Instituto Pensi, Fundação José Luiz Egydio Setubal, Hospital Infantil Sabará, São Paulo 01228-200, Brazil
Lilia Yadira Cortés: Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá 110231, Colombia
Martha Cecilia Yépez García: Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito 17-1200-841, Ecuador
Marianella Herrera-Cuenca: Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, Universidad Central de Venezuela (CENDES-UCV)/Fundación Bengoa, Caracas 1053, Venezuela
Attilio Rigotti: Centro de Nutrición Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, Departamento de Nutrición, Diabetes y Metabolismo, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago 8330024, Chile
Gerson Ferrari: Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 7500618, Chile
Rossina G. Pareja: Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima 15026, Peru
on behalf of the ELANS Study Group: Membership of the ELANS Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 22, 1-12

Abstract: Neck circumference (NC) is being used to identify the risk of chronic diseases. There is a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latin America, and neck circumference is a simple and practical measurement to assess this, especially in primary health centers. We analyzed the correlation between the NC anthropometric indicator and other anthropometric measurements such as BMI and waist circumference (WC) in eight Latin American cities. We applied Pearson’s correlation to identify the correlate NC with the other anthropometric variables stratified by sex; the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) by sex were evaluated according to the cut-off established with the Youden Index. The strongest correlations between NC and WC were found when stratified by sex (women: r = 0.71; men: r = 0.69, respectively) followed by the correlation between NC and BMI (r = 0.65, both sex). NC cut-off points of 39.0 cm in men and 32.9 cm in women identified those individuals with an increased WC and 39.8 and 33.7 cm, respectively, for a substantial increase in WC. For BMI ≥ 25.0 kg/m 2 for men, the cut-off point was 37.5 cm, and for women, it was 33.1 cm, and for BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 , the cut-off points were 39.2 and 34.2 cm, for men and women, respectively. Conclusion: NC proved to be a useful, practical, and inexpensive tool that can be used to identify, evaluate, and monitor overweight and obese individuals.

Keywords: waist circumference; body mass index; neck circumference; obesity; overweight (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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