Body mass index, waist hip ratio, and waist circumference: Which measure to classify obesity?

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-200

  Gill, Tiffany ^a   Chittleborough, Catherine ^a   Taylor, Anne ^a   Ruffin, Richard ^b   Wilson, David ^c   Phillips, Patrick ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d Woodville SA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Anthropometry; Body mass index; Central obesity; Height; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNDERWEIGHT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0038044922     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-003-2055-1     Document Type: Article

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