Utility of Waist-To-Height Ratio in Detecting Central Obesity and Related Adverse Cardiovascular Risk Profile Among Normal Weight Younger Adults (from the Bogalusa Heart Study)
- 26 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Cardiology
- Vol. 104 (5) , 721-724
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.04.037
Abstract
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