The performance of anthropometric measures to predict diabetes mellitus and hypertension among adults in Jordan

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate and compare the abilities of waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), hip circumference (HC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) to predict recently and previously diagnosed diabetes and hypertension and assess their appropriate...

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Autores principales: Khader, Yousef, Batieha, Anwar, Jaddou, Hashem, El-Khateeb, Mohammed, Ajlouni, Kamel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7801-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7801-2

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