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- Title
A comparison of proxy measures of abdominal obesity in Chinese, European and South Asian adults.
- Authors
Patel, S; Unwin, N; Bhopal, R; White, M; Harland, J; Ayis, S A; Watson, W; Alberti, K G
- Abstract
To assess whether four proxy measures of abdominal obesity (waist circumference; waist-to-hip ratio (WHR); waist-to-height ratio and C index, a measure of body shape) were uniformly associated with features of the metabolic syndrome (triglycerides, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, 2-h glucose) in three ethnic groups.
- Publication
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association, 1999, Vol 16, Issue 10, p853
- ISSN
0742-3071
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1464-5491.1999.00163.x