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Abdominal obesity is a common finding in normal and overweight subjects of Chile and is associated with increased frequency of cardiometabolic risk factors

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Abdominal obesity (AO) is associated with elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases; however, this association is less clear for non-obese people. We estimated the association of AO and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and disease in non-obese adult individuals from Chile. S...

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Autores principales: Villanueva, Beatriz, Arteaga, Antonio, Maiz, Alberto, Cortés, Víctor A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29579094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194644