Determining the waist circumference cut off which best predicts the metabolic syndrome components in urban Africans: The SABPA study

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 599-603

  Prinsloo, J ^a   Malan, L ^a   De Ridder, J H ^a   Potgieter, J C ^a   Steyn, H S ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

black Africans; central obesity; metabolic syndrome; ROC; Setswana

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN HEALTH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 81555213413     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1280801     Document Type: Article

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