Lifetime cigarette smoking is associated with abdominal obesity in a community-based sample of Japanese men: The Shiga Epidemiological Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis (SESSA)
Smokers tend to have greater abdominal obesity than non-smokers. We explored the relationship on a lean population-sample of Japanese men. Outcomes include waist-hip ratio (WHR) and visceral-subcutaneous area ratio (VSR). Greater lifetime smoking was associated with greater WHR and VSR.