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Obesity, waist-hip ratio and hunter-gatherers.

BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology - 1 Oct 2006

Wood L E P

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Obesity is a rapidly growing global problem. It is not simply the result of eating too much, and not all types of obesity have the same significance. Obesity is in part genetic, and one particularly important genetic type of obesity is the tendency to 'truncal obesity',-that is, a raised waist-to-hip ratio. Such obesity is powerfully associated not only with a tendency to diabetes, but also to cardiovascular...

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PMID: 16972857
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.01070.x

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