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Corresponding waist circumference and body mass index values based on 10-year absolute type 2 diabetes risk in an Australian Aboriginal community

OBJECTIVE: There is a lack of waist circumference (WC) thresholds to identify Aboriginal individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes. We generated gender-specific WC values with equivalent 10-year absolute risk of type 2 diabetes as body mass index (BMI) points in an Australian Aboriginal community...

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Autores principales: Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy E, Wang, Zhiqiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26405557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2015-000127