Waist circumference thresholds provide an accurate and widely applicable method for the discrimination of diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3116-3118

  Huxley, Rachel ^a   Barzi, Federica ^b   Lee, Crystal M Y ^b   Lear, Scott ^b   Shaw, Jonathan ^b   Tai, Hing Lam ^b   Caterson, Ian ^b   Azizi, Fereidoun ^b   Patel, Jeetesh ^b   Suriyawongpaisal, Paibul ^b   Sang, Woo Oh ^b   Kang, Jae Heon ^b   Gill, Tim ^b   Zimmet, Paul ^b   James, Philip T ^b   Woodward, Mark ^b  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 37149016720     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-1455     Document Type: Article

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