Anthropometric cutoff values for predicting metabolic syndrome in a Saudi community: from the SAUDI-DM study

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome varies widely by ethnicity and by the criteria used in its definition. OBJECTIVE: To identify the optimal cutoff values for waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI) for identifying metabolic syndrome among the Saudi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ann Saudi Med
Hauptverfasser: Al-Rubean, Khalid, Youssef, Amira M., Al Farsi, Yousuf, Al-Sharqawi, Ahmad H., Bawazeer, Nahla, Al Otaibi, Mohammad T., AlRumaih, Fahd Issa, Zaidi, Muhammad Shoaib
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148981/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28151453
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2017.21
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