Ethnic comparisons of the cross-sectional relationships between measures of body size with diabetes and hypertension

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 53-61

  Huxley, R ^a   James, W P T ^a   Barzi, F ^a   Patel, J V ^a   Lear, S A ^a   Suriyawongpaisal, P ^a   Janus, E ^a   Caterson, I ^a   Zimmet, P ^a   Prabhakaran, D ^a   Reddy, S ^a   Woodward, M ^a  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Ethnicity; Hypertension; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY;

EID: 42449147947     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00439.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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