Standardization of waist circumference reference data

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-4

  Wang, Jack ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OBESITY; REFERENCE DATABASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; STANDARDIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; MORTALITY; NOTE; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33644855877     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/83.1.3     Document Type: Editorial

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