Differential association of anthropometric parameters with coronary risk in women - Data of the CORA study

Obesity Facts

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 358-364

  Zyriax, Birgit Christiane ^a   Schoeffauer, Mark ^b   Klipstein Grobusch, Kerstin ^c,d   Boeing, Heiner ^e   Windler, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central obesity; Coronary heart disease; Metabolic syndrome; Waist circumference; Waist to hip ratio; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGED; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 82955246325     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333964     Document Type: Article

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