Measures of abdominal obesity within body mass index categories, 1981 and 2007-2009

Health Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Shields, Margot ^a   Tremblay, Mark S ^b   Gorber, Sarah Connor ^c   Janssen, Ian ^d  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body composition; Central obesity; Waist circumference; Waist to height ratio; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865547722     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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