BMI may be better than waist circumference for defining metabolic syndrome in Japanese women

Diabetes Care

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sakurai, Masaru ^a,b   Takamura, Toshinari ^a   Miura, Katsuyuki ^b   Ranero, Shuichi ^a   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; LETTER; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; ASIAN; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 44449156468     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0309     Document Type: Letter

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