Cut-points for waist circumference in Europids and South Asians

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2039-2046

  Cameron, Adrian J ^a,b   Sicree, Richard A ^a   Zimmet, Paul Z ^a   Alberti, K George M M ^c   Tonkin, Andrew M ^b   Balkau, Beverley ^a,d,e   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^f   Chitson, Pierrot ^g   Shaw, Jonathan E ^a  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g Ministry of Health and Quality of Life   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77957160318     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.455     Document Type: Article

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