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

• Hauptverfasser: Fatemeh Moosaie (Verfasst von), Seyede Marzie Fatemi Abhari (Verfasst von), Niloofar Deravi (Verfasst von), Arman Karimi Behnagh (Verfasst von), Sadaf Esteghamati (Verfasst von), Fatemeh Dehghani Firouzabadi (Verfasst von), Soghra Rabizadeh (Verfasst von), Manouchehr Nakhjavani (Verfasst von), Alireza Esteghamati (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...