Waist-to-height ratio and coronary artery disease in Taiwanese type 2 diabetic patients

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2754-2759

  Tseng, Chin Hsiao ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; TAIWAN; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 58149289874     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.430     Document Type: Article

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