Hernández RJ, Mendoza CJ, Duchi JP

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ABSTRACT

Background: developing diagnosing forms of easy use, good precisión and low cost, with the objective of predicting the cardiometabolic risk in our patients, leads us to the task of identifying anthropometric measurements and ratios that may be useful for the risk detection.
to describe the usefulness of the conicity index as a predictor of cardiovascular and metabolaic risk and compare it with some of the anthropometric measurements and ratios used to this end.
Methods: eighty aritcles, 51 of which met the expected quality criteria of the authors, were reviewed. The search was made in some of the regular databases and searchers.
Results: the physiological characteristics of the abdominal fatty tissue were significant and even they may be possible determinants of the increased cardiometabolic risk associated to visceral obesity. The conicity index is a ratio that involves several anthropometric measurements such as waist circumference, height and body weight. This index has been used to show increase of abdominal fat and in prediction of the cardiovascular and the metabolic risk. Among the results of the different studies, there have been observed various criteria about the usefulness and applications of the index in comparison with other anthropometric measurements and indexes; something that at the very best should be clarified in the future through research studies designed for this end.
Conclusions: the conicity index is a useful ratio to determine the existence of abdominal obesity, although it does not seem to be the best predictor of the cardiovascular and/or metabolic risk when making a comparison with the rest of the anthropometric measurements and ratios that have been so far used.