A novel cutoff for the waist-to-height ratio predicting metabolic syndrome in young American adults

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown the enhanced diagnostic capability of the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) over BMI. However, while a structured cutoff hierarchy has been established for BMI, a rigorous analysis to define individuals as obese using the WHtR has not been performed on a sample of Am...

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Autores principales: Bohr, Adam D., Laurson, Kelly, McQueen, Matthew B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2964-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2964-6

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