Waist-Height Ratio, Indicator of Central Obesity, Is Strongly Related to Waist Circumference but There Is Poor Additional Information Regarding Waist Circumference
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Waist-height ratio, indicator of central obesity, is strongly related to waist circumference but there is poor additional information regarding waist circumference.
We thank Dr Kawada for the interest in our article1 and the appreciative comments. Recently, we reported that, regarding diabetes mellitus and hypertension, the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUCs) for waist-toheight ratio (WHtR) was significantly higher than either the body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference (WC) in both sexes. Additionally, the AUCs for WHtR were...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-10-0583