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Performance of waist circumference and proposed cutoff levels for defining overweight and obesity in Nigerians
BACKGROUND: Waist circumference (WC) is a simple tool for measuring central obesity in routine clinic settings. Gender- and ethnic-specific optimal cutoff points for WC are encouraged for populations lacking such data. OBJECTIVES: To derive WC cutoff values, predictive of overweight and obesity in N...
Autores principales: | Okafor, Christian I., Raimi, Taiwo H., Gezawa, Ibrahim D., Sabir, Anas A., Enang, Ofem, Puepet, Fabian, Fasanmade, Olufemi A., Ofoegbu, Esther N., Odusan, Olatunde |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402832/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853033 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1596-3519.194275 |
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