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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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Autores principales: Zakri, Faisal Khalid A., El-Wahid, Hassan Ali Abd, Sani, Mubarack, Mahfouz, Mohamed Salih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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