Body mass index and waist circumference cut-points in multi-ethnic populations from the UK and India: The ADDITION-Leicester, Jaipur Heart Watch and New Delhi cross-sectional studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Bodicoat, Danielle H ^a   Gray, Laura J ^b   Henson, Joseph ^a   Webb, David ^a   Guru, Arvind ^c   Misra, Anoop ^d   Gupta, Rajeev ^e   Vikram, Naval ^f   Sattar, Naveed ^g   Davies, Melanie J ^a   Khunti, Kamlesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d Fortis Hospitals   (India)

^e FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^f ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84897135592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090813     Document Type: Article

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