Relations between waist circumference at four sites and metabolic risk factors

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2374-2378

  Matsushita, Yumi ^a   Tomita, Kentaro ^b   Yokoyama, Tetsuji ^c   Mizoue, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Koukankai Tsurumi Occupational Health Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649957515     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.33     Document Type: Article

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