Are Current UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Obesity Risk Guidelines Useful? Cross-Sectional Associations with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in a Large, Representative English Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tabassum, Faiza ^a   Batty, G David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84879772863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067764     Document Type: Article

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