Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

Despite decades of unequivocal evidence that waist circumference provides both independent and additive information to BMI for predicting morbidity and risk of death, this measurement is not routinely obtained in clinical practice. This Consensus Statement proposes that measurements of waist circumf...

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Autores principales: Ross, Robert, Neeland, Ian J., Yamashita, Shizuya, Shai, Iris, Seidell, Jaap, Magni, Paolo, Santos, Raul D., Arsenault, Benoit, Cuevas, Ada, Hu, Frank B., Griffin, Bruce A., Zambon, Alberto, Barter, Philip, Fruchart, Jean-Charles, Eckel, Robert H., Matsuzawa, Yuji, Després, Jean-Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Consensus Statement
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7027970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32020062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41574-019-0310-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7027970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32020062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41574-019-0310-7

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