Reassessment of the cutoff values of waist circumference and visceral fat area for identifying Japanese subjects at risk for the metabolic syndrome

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-481

  Oka, Rie ^a   Kobayashi, Junji ^b   Yagi, Kunimasa ^b   Tanii, Hideji ^b   Miyamoto, Susumu ^a   Asano, Akimichi ^a   Hagishita, Tomomi ^a   Mori, Mika ^a   Moriuchi, Tadashi ^a   Kobayashi, Makoto ^a   Katsuda, Shouji ^b   Kawashiri, Masa aki ^b   Nohara, Atsushi ^b   Takeda, Yoshiyu ^b   Mabuchi, Hiroshi ^b   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^b  

^a Hokuriku Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Diagnostic criteria; Metabolic syndrome; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 39449136477     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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