Kasia Tepylo
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Research Subjects
Kasia Tepylo has a total of 4 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Ahmed El-Sohemy
University of Toronto
1 shared publication - Darren R Brenner
Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, 60 Murray St., Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada
1 shared publication - Karen M Eny
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 shared publication - Leah E. Cahill
Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 12 May 2010
- Published by Springer Nature in Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
- Vol. 2 (1) , 28
Comparison of body mass index and waist circumference as predictors of cardiometabolic health in a population of young Canadian adults
Background: This study aimed to investigate whether waist circumference (WC) or body mass index (BMI) is a better predictor of blood lipid concentrations among young men and women from different ethnocultural groups. Methods: Participants were 1181 healthy men (n = 358) and women (n = 823) aged 20-29 years taken from the cross-sectional Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study. Analyses were conducted separately for men and women, and for Caucasian and East Asian ethnocultural groups. Serum triglycerides (TG) and total to HDL cholesterol ratio (TC:HDL cholesterol) were used as outcomes. Associations between the adiposity and blood lipid measures were examined using partial correlations and odds ratios derived from logistic regression models. Results: WC had a stronger association with serum lipid concentrations than BMI. WC was significantly related to TG and TC:HDL cholesterol after adjusting for BMI and covariates among men and women (P ≤ 0.01). However, after adjusting for WC and covariates, BMI was not significantly associated with the two serum lipid measures. WC was a better predictor of TG and TC:HDL among all sex and ethnocultural subgroups except among East Asian women where little difference between the two measures was observed. Conclusions: WC is a stronger predictor of cardiometabolic health when compared with BMI among young adults, especially among men.
- 12 May 2010
- Published by Springer Nature in Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
- Vol. 2 (1) , 28
Open AccessComparison of body mass index and waist circumference as predictors of cardiometabolic health in a population of young Canadian adults
Background: This study aimed to investigate whether waist circumference (WC) or body mass index (BMI) is a better predictor of blood lipid concentrations among young men and women from different ethnocultural groups. Methods: Participants were 1181 healthy men (n = 358) and women (n = 823) aged 20-29 years taken from the cross-sectional Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study. Analyses were conducted separately for men and women, and for Caucasian and East Asian ethnocultural groups. Serum triglycerides (TG) and total to HDL cholesterol ratio (TC:HDL cholesterol) were used as outcomes. Associations between the adiposity and blood lipid measures were examined using partial correlations and odds ratios derived from logistic regression models. Results: WC had a stronger association with serum lipid concentrations than BMI. WC was significantly related to TG and TC:HDL cholesterol after adjusting for BMI and covariates among men and women (P ≤ 0.01). However, after adjusting for WC and covariates, BMI was not significantly associated with the two serum lipid measures. WC was a better predictor of TG and TC:HDL among all sex and ethnocultural subgroups except among East Asian women where little difference between the two measures was observed. Conclusions: WC is a stronger predictor of cardiometabolic health when compared with BMI among young adults, especially among men.