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Obesity Measures as Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases among the Jordanian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study

Obesity is strongly associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). This study aimed to use obesity measures, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) to predict the CVD and T2D risk and to determine the best predictor of these diseases among Jordanian adults. A cr...

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Autores principales: Alkhalidy, Hana, Orabi, Aliaa, Alnaser, Khadeejah, Al-Shami, Islam, Alzboun, Tamara, Obeidat, Mohammad D., Liu, Dongmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212187