Health and mortality consequences of abdominal obesity: Evidence from the AusDiab study

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 202-208

  Cameron, Adrian J ^a   Dunstan, David W ^a   Owen, Neville ^b   Zimmet, Paul Z ^a   Barr, Elizabeth L M ^a   Tonkin, Andrew M ^c   Magliano, Dianna J ^a   Murray, Shirley G ^a   Welborn, Timothy A ^d   Shaw, Jonathan E ^a  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 70349565557     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02753.x     Document Type: Article

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