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Ethnicity-specific obesity cut-points in the development of Type 2 diabetes – a prospective study including three ethnic groups in the United Kingdom
AIMS: Conventional definitions of obesity, e.g. body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m(2) or waist circumference cut-points of 102 cm (men) and 88 cm (women), may underestimate metabolic risk in non-Europeans. We prospectively identified equivalent ethnicity-specific obesity cut-points for the estimation o...
Autores principales: | Tillin, T, Sattar, N, Godsland, I F, Hughes, A D, Chaturvedi, N, Forouhi, N G |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25186015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.12576 |
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