Anthropometric measures of obesity and associated cardiovascular disease risk in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort Study

• Main Authors: Saria Hassan (Author), Carol Oladele (Author), Deron Galusha (Author), Oswald Peter Adams (Author), Rohan G. Maharaj (Author), Cruz M. Nazario (Author), Maxine Nunez (Author), Marcella Nunez-Smith (Author), on behalf of the ECHORN Writing Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Accurately defining obesity using anthropometric measures that best capture obesity-related risk is important for identifying high risk groups for intervention. The purpose of this study is to compare the association of different anthropometric measures of obesity with 10-year ca...