A novel cutoff for the waist-to-height ratio predicting metabolic syndrome in young American adults
Abstract Background Recent studies have shown the enhanced diagnostic capability of the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) over BMI. However, while a structured cutoff hierarchy has been established for BMI, a rigorous analysis to define individuals as obese using the WHtR has not been performed on a samp...
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Main Authors: | Adam D. Bohr (Author), Kelly Laurson (Author), Matthew B. McQueen (Author) |
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2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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