Waist-to-height ratio is independently and better associated with urinary albumin excretion rate than waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio in Chinese adult type 2 diabetic women but not men

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2249-2251

  Tseng, Chin Hsiao ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CREATININE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TAIWAN;

EID: 24144499987     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.9.2249     Document Type: Article

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