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Waist circumference: a useful index in clinical care and health promotion
1Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
Nutrition Reviews
|November 12, 1998
Abstract:
Recent research illustrates that waist circumference may have certain advantages over other measurements of adiposity in predicting risk of obesity-related diseases. Further studies are necessary to determine whether waist circumference is a better predictor of risk than body mass index.