Prevalence of obesity in primary care using different anthropometric measures – Results of the German Metabolic and Cardiovascular Risk Project (GEMCAS)

BACKGROUND: Obesity is one of the greatest challenges in primary health care. The BMI describes fat mass and waist circumference (WC) fat distribution and total metabolic and cardiovascular risk. It was aim of the present study to assess the prevalence of a) overweight and obesity and b) an increase...

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Autores principales: Hauner, Hans, Bramlage, Peter, Lösch, Christian, Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth, Schunkert, Heribert, Wasem, Jürgen, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Moebus, Susanne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18694486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-282

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18694486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-282

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