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

• Główni autorzy: Fatemeh Moosaie (Autor), Seyede Marzie Fatemi Abhari (Autor), Niloofar Deravi (Autor), Arman Karimi Behnagh (Autor), Sadaf Esteghamati (Autor), Fatemeh Dehghani Firouzabadi (Autor), Soghra Rabizadeh (Autor), Manouchehr Nakhjavani (Autor), Alireza Esteghamati (Autor)
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• Wydane: 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...