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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| 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 |