A body shape index in a small sample of Saudi adults with type 2 diabetes
CONTEXT: Overweight and obesity are assessed clinically using the body mass index (BMI), but the index is criticized as a crude measure of relative fat-muscle composition. The recently introduced a body shape index (ABSI) is an independent and more accurate predictor of mortality than other anthropo...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31742139 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_532_19 |