Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis
Objective: To determine which simple index of overweight and obesity is the best discriminator of cardiovascular risk factors. Study Design and Setting: This is a meta-analysis of published literature. MEDLINE was searched. Studies that used receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis an...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33307 |