Optimal waist circumference cutoff value for defining the metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal Latin American women

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 433-437

  Blümel, Juan E ^a   Legorreta, Deborah ^a   Chedraui, Peter ^a   Ayala, Felix ^a   Bencosme, Ascanio ^a   Danckers, Luis ^a   Lange, Diego ^a   Espinoza, Maria T ^a   Gomez, Gustavo ^a   Grandia, Elena ^a   Izaguirre, Humberto ^a   Manriquez, Valentin ^a   Martino, Mabel ^a   Navarro, Daysi ^a   Ojeda, Eliana ^a   Onatra, William ^a   Pozzo, Estela ^a   Prada, Mariela ^a   Royer, Monique ^a   Saavedra, Javier M ^a   Sayegh, Fabiana ^a   Tserotas, Konstantinos ^a   Vallejo, Maria S ^a   Zuñiga, Cristina ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Cutoff value; Latin America; Metabolic syndrome; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84859431774     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318231fc79     Document Type: Article

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