A comparison of anthropometric indices for predicting hypertension and type 2 diabetes in a male industrial population of Chennai, South India

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-36

  Kaur, Prabhdeep ^a   Radhakrishnan, Ezhil ^a   Sankarasubbaiyan, Suresh ^b   Rao, Sudha Ramachandra ^a   Kondalsamy Chennakesavan, Srinivas ^c   Rao, Thota Venkata ^a   Gupte, Mohan Digamber ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Sundaram Medical Foundation   (India)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropometric indices; Asian Indian; Central obesity; Diabetes; Hypertension; India; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INDUSTRY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 47549106159     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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