Differential relationship between waist circumference and mortality according to age, sex, and body mass index in Korean with age of 30–90 years; a nationwide health insurance database study

BACKGROUND: A recent concept is that obesity, assessed by body mass index (BMI), is not always a sign of poor health. Thus, in order to use obesity metrics in clinical decision making, it is important to clarify the relationship between waist circumference (WC), a proxy for abdominal obesity, and mo...

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Autores principales: Cho, Geum Joon, Yoo, Hye Jin, Hwang, Soon Young, Choi, Jun, Lee, Kyu-Min, Choi, Kyung Mook, Baik, Sei Hyun, Han, Sung Won, Kim, Tak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30092838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1114-7

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