Association Between Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and Emphysema in Adults in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study Involving 44,949 Participants

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The work has significant value in medical science. A minor revision will improve the manuscript.

Line 27-28: keywords: arrange alphabetically.

Line 74: Definition of Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and Emphysema---- The definition and description need to be given in the Introduction. Here, need to mention only applied methodologies.

Line 75-76: WWI is a novel obesity measurement index designed to more accurately reflect visceral fat distribution.---- Unnecessary here.

Line 77-79: WWI calculates the ratio of ........ measure of visceral obesity.---- Avoid or rewrite very briefly.

Line 99-126: It needs to be more compact. I suggest avoiding subheadings. Did they check whether the data is normally distributed?

Line 377-385: Add a brief text (key findings) about any relation of selected parameters (e.g., age, race, marital status, education, diabetes) with WWI.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thank you for inviting mr to review paper on hot topic - Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and emphy- 2 sema in United States adults: A cross-sectional study involving 3 44,949 participants

my proposals:

1. to add future directions of applying in clinical practice: the Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and possible impact for screening programs and guidelines

2, please add in discussions and another assessments of obesity, for example use of DEXA

3, Please present correlation analysis with coefficients of correlation

 

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