Ethnicity and the association between anthropometric indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk in women: a cross-sectional study

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Ethnicity and the association between anthropometric indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk in women: a cross-sectional study

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine whether the cross-sectional associations between anthropometric obesity measures, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to hip ratio (WHR), and calculated 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk using the Framingham and...

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Main Authors:	Goh, Louise, Dhaliwal, Satvinder, Welborn, T., Lee, Andy, Della, Phillip
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	B M J Group 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36087

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