Thomas P Bersot

Biographic Data

ID7554892
NAMEThomas P Bersot
GIVEN NAMESThomas P
FAMILY NAMEBersot
SIGNATUREBERSOT T P
AFFILIATIONSGladstone Institutes
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX0

  • Optimal waist

    Open AccessAhmet Selcuk Can, Emine Akal Yıldız et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2010

    Objective To identify the optimal waist:height ratio (WHtR) cut-off point that discriminates cardiometabolic risk factors in Turkish adults. Design Cross-sectional study. Hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, metabolic syndrome score ≥2 (presence of two or more metabolic syndrome components except for waist circumference) and at least one risk factor (diabetes, hypertension or dyslipidaemia) were categorical outcome variables. Receiver-operating…

  • Anthropometric indices and their relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors in a sample of Turkish adults

    Open AccessAhmet Selcuk Can, Thomas P Bersot et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2009

    Objective To identify the best anthropometric index that predicts cardiometabolic risk factors. Design and setting Cross-sectional study in Turkey, in 2003. Subjects Turkish men and women aged 18 years and over ( n 1692) were examined. Body weight, height, waist and hip circumferences, blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, TAG, glucose and insulin were measured. Metabolic syndrome score was calculated as the sum of modified National…

  • Analysis of agreement among definitions of metabolic syndrome in nondiabetic Turkish adults

    Open AccessAhmet Selcuk Can, Thomas P BersotARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    The metabolic syndrome definitions that do not require measurement of insulin levels (NCEP, ACE and IDF) identify twice more patients with insulin resistance and increased Framingham risk scores and are more useful than the definitions that require measurement of insulin levels (WHO and EGIR)