Waist Circumference Correlates with Metabolic Syndrome Indicators Better Than Percentage Fat
Obesity2006Vol. 14(4), pp. 727–736
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Wei Shen, Mark Punyanitya, Jun Chen, Dympna Gallagher, Jeanine Albu, F. Xavier Pi‐Sunyer, Cora E. Lewis, Carl Grünfeld, Stanley Heshka, Steven B. Heymsfield
Abstract
WC had the strongest associations with health risk indicators, followed by BMI. Although percent fat is a useful measure of overall adiposity, health risks are best represented by the simply measured WC.
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