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- Title
Site or Size of Waist Circumference, Which one is More important in Metabolic Syndrome?
- Authors
Razi Gutch Manish, Syed Mohd; Keshav, Gupta Kumar; Sukriti, Kumar; Gupta, Abhinav
- Abstract
Abdominal obesity is one of the pivotal factors in defining the metabolic syndrome. Abdominal obesity is assessed by the various clinical surrogates among which waist circumference is considered to be simple, inexpensive & sensitive tool. But various controversies surround the exact cut offs and the ideal sites of waist circumference measurement, so in this review we discussed these issues.
- Subjects
OBESITY; METABOLIC syndrome; ABDOMINAL abnormalities
- Publication
International Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 2016, Vol 6, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
2230-8598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5530/ijmedph.2016.2.4