Central obesity among adults in Egypt: prevalence and associated morbidity.
作者： Soliman La , Mansour E , El-Dawaiaty Aa , Farghaly M , Abolfotouh Ma
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摘要: Through a home-based survey, all people aged 18 years and over (n = 1800) in the catchment areas of 12 primary health care centres 4 Egyptian governorates were subjected to standardized waist hip measurements. Central obesity was determined based on circumference (WC) waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) indicators. The age-adjusted prevalence central among adults 24.1% 28.7% WC WHR indicators respectively. After adjustment for sex other confounding factors, significantly associated with risk diabetes hypertension, while not either or hypertension. No significant association seen between body mass index
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