Waist circumference in metabolic syndrome

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9598, 2007, Pages 1541-1542

  Yamada, Satoru ^a   Tsukamoto, Youko ^a   Irie, Junichiro ^a  

^a KITASATO INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAPANESE; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 35548934536     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61656-0     Document Type: Letter

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