Optimal waist circumference measurement site for assessing the metabolic syndrome

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Matsushita, Yumi ^a   Tomita, Kentaro ^b   Yokoyama, Tetsuji ^c   Mizoue, Tetsuya ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Koukankai Tsurumi Occupational Health Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; LETTER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; UMBILICUS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549093855     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-0190     Document Type: Letter

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