Predicting cardiometabolic risk: Waist-to-height ratio or BMI. A meta-analysis

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 403-419

  Savva, Savvas C ^a   Lamnisos, Demetris ^b   Kafatos, Anthony G ^c  

^a Research and Education of Child Health Institute   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cardiometabolic; Meta analysis; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RACISM; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

EID: 84886642418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DMSO.S34220     Document Type: Article

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