Validity of self-measured waist and hip circumferences: results from a community study in Malaysia

BACKGROUND: Measures of central adiposity are better predictors of adverse health events than BMI. Nonetheless, BMI is more widely used in health research. One reason for this may be the limited research supporting the self-measurement of waist and hip circumference. The lack of validity studies is...

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Autores principales: Reidpath, Daniel D, Cheah, Julius Chee-Ho, Lam, Fui-Ching, Yasin, Shahjahan, Soyiri, Ireneous, Allotey, Pascale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24093886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-135

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24093886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-135

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