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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...
Autor principal: | Onen,, Churchill Lukwiya |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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