Measurement error of waist circumference: Gaps in knowledge

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 281-288

  Verweij, Lisanne M ^a   Terwee, Caroline B ^a   Proper, Karin I ^a   Hulshof, Carel TJ ^b,c   Mechelen, Willem Van ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Society of Occupational Medicine   (Netherlands)

^c Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Measurement error; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANTHROPOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872156924     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012002741     Document Type: Article

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