The ability of waist-to-height ratio to identify health risk

• Main Authors: Márcia Mara Corrêa (Author), Luiz Augusto Facchini (Author), Elaine Thumé (Author), Elizabete Regina Araújo de Oliveira (Author), Elaine Tomasi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the ratio between the waist circumference and the height in the identification of health risk compared with the correlation matrix between the anthropometric parameters body mass index and waist circumference. METHODS A population-based study present...