The accuracy of neck circumference for assessing overweight and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Caroline KrollSilmara S B S MastroeniSandra A CzarnobayJohn Paul EkwaruKaterina MaximovaMarco Fabio MastroeniPublished in: Annals of human biology (2017)
NC is an accurate tool for assessing overweight and obesity in males and females of different age groups and could be used to screen for excess body weight in routine medical practice or epidemiological studies. It is also believed that more studies will permit the creation of a reference dataset of NC cut-off values for world populations.