Waist-To-Height Ratio Is a More Accurate Tool for Predicting Hypertension Than Waist-To-Hip Circumference and BMI in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study

• मुख्य लेखकों: Fatemeh Moosaie (लेखक), Seyede Marzie Fatemi Abhari (लेखक), Niloofar Deravi (लेखक), Arman Karimi Behnagh (लेखक), Sadaf Esteghamati (लेखक), Fatemeh Dehghani Firouzabadi (लेखक), Soghra Rabizadeh (लेखक), Manouchehr Nakhjavani (लेखक), Alireza Esteghamati (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Background: Anthropometric measures [i.e., body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR)] have been used as prediction factors for incident hypertension. However, whether any of these measures is superior to another in the matter of accuracy in predicting hyperten...