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Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth: a cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort
BACKGROUND: While the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has ethnic specific waist circumference (WC) cut-points for the metabolic syndrome for Asian populations it is not known whether the cut-points for black populations should differ from those for European populations. We examined the valid...
Autores principales: | Tulloch-Reid, Marshall K, Ferguson, Trevor S, Younger, Novie OM, Van den Broeck, Jan, Boyne, Michael S, Knight-Madden, Jennifer M, Samms-Vaughan, Maureen E, Ashley, Deana E, Wilks, Rainford J |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21134291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-2-68 |
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