Waist circumference cut-off points to identify major cardiovascular events and incident diabetes in Latin America: findings from the prospective Urban rural epidemiology study Colombia

BACKGROUND: Abdominal obesity (AO) indirectly represents visceral adiposity and can be assessed by waist circumference (WC) measurement. In Latin America, cut-off points for the diagnosis of AO are based on Asian population data. We aim to establish the WC cut-off points to predict major cardiovascu...

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Autores principales: Lopez-Lopez, Jose P., Gonzalez, Ana María, Lanza, Paola, Martinez-Bello, Daniel, Gomez-Arbelaez, Diego, Otero, Johanna, Cohen, Daniel D., Perez-Mayorga, Maritza, Garcia-Peña, Angel A., Rangarajan, Sumathy, Yusuf, Salim, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Cardiovascular Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10643140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38028452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1204885

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