Waist-height ratio as a predictor of coronary heart disease among women

Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-366

  Page, John H ^a,d   Rexrode, Kathryn M ^b   Hu, Frank ^a,b   Albert, Christine M ^b   Chae, Claudia U ^b,c   Manson, Joann E ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 67651108845     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31819f38f1     Document Type: Article

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