A proposal for a primary screening tool: `Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height’

作者: Margaret Ashwell , Sigrid Gibson

DOI: 10.1186/S12916-014-0207-1

关键词: AnthropometryBody mass indexPopulationCircumferenceWaist-to-height ratioObesityWaistMedicineProxy (climate)DemographyPediatrics

摘要: … add to the case for using WHtR instead of BMI for primary screening purposes. We have shown that ten per cent of the whole population would be `missed’ if screening is only done on …

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