Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth: A cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort

Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tulloch Reid, Marshall K ^a   Ferguson, Trevor S ^a   Younger, Novie O M ^a   Van Den Broeck, Jan ^b   Boyne, Michael S ^a   Knight Madden, Jennifer M ^a   Samms Vaughan, Maureen E ^c   Ashley, Deana E ^c   Wilks, Rainford J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUDEN INDEX;

EID: 78649730591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17585996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-5996-2-68     Document Type: Article

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