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Obesity in Botswana: time for new cut-off points for abdominal girth?

INTRODUCTION: Country-specific cut-off points for defining central obesity in black Africans are long overdue. METHODS: Anthropometric data from 215 (51.4%) male and 203 (48.6%) female patients seen in Gaborone between 2005 and 2015 were analysed to establish appropriate cut-off points for waist cir...

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Autor principal: Onen,, Churchill Lukwiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinics Cardive Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5488050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27374268
http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2016-060