Use of BMI as Marker of Adiposity in a Metabolic Syndrome Severity Score: Derivation and Validation in Predicting Long-term Disease Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Estimates of adiposity in evaluating the metabolic syndrome (MetS) have traditionally utilized measures of waist circumference (WC), whereas body mass index (BMI) is more commonly used clinically. Our objective was to determine if a MetS severity Z-score employing BMI as its measure of a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Metabolism
Hauptverfasser: Gurka, Matthew J., Filipp, Stephanie L., Musani, Solomon K., Sims, Mario, DeBoer, Mark D.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2018
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960618/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29410278
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2018.01.015
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