The waist-hip ratio: a flawed index
The waist-hip ratio, namely waist circumference (WC) divided by hip circumference (HC), has been referred to in thousands of articles, generally as a correlate and predictor either of health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, or of amounts of visceral and subcutaneous abdominal...
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Main Author: | Richard Francis Burton (Author) |
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2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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