Neck Circumference May Help Predict Cardiometabolic Risk

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Neck Circumference May Help Predict Cardiometabolic Risk

Measuring an obese patient’s neck may prove to be of greater value than waist circumference in assessing metabolic risk, a new study finds.

The results were presented here at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ 2015 Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress by Zdravko Kamenov, MD, PhD, from Alexandrovska University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria.

In the study of 138 obesity-clinic patients, neck circumference cutoffs of 36 cm or greater in females and 39 cm or more in males correlated with criteria for the metabolic syndrome. In women more than men, neck circumference had greater predictive value for some measures than did waist circumference.

“Neck circumference is easily measured and has the advantage of giving additional information in some aspects compared with waist circumference. At this point in time I would not speak about alternative but rather complementary use of both methods to improve the risk evaluation,” Dr Kamenov stated.

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ 2015 Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress. May 15, 2015; Nashville, Tennessee. Abstract 606.

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