Obesity criteria for identifying metabolic risks;Chinese Source

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-113

  Wang, Jin wen ^a   Hu, Da yi ^a,b   Sun, Yi hong ^b   Wang, Jia hong ^b   Wang, Gui lian ^b   Xie, Jiang ^c   Zhou, Zi qiang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Metabolic risk factors; Obesity; ROC curve analysis; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 67649964386     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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