Accuracy of anthropometric measurements by general practitioners in overweight and obese patients

BACKGROUND: We recently showed that abdominal obesity measurements (waist and hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) were inaccurate when performed by general practitioners (GPs). We hypothesise that measurement error could be even higher in overweight and obese patients due to difficulty in locatin...

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Autores principales: Sebo, Paul, Herrmann, François R., Haller, Dagmar M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-017-0158-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-017-0158-0

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