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Obesity phenotype and coronary heart disease risk as estimated by the Framingham risk score.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Mar 2012
Park Yong Soon, Kim Jun-Su
Abstract excerpt
There are conflicting data as to whether general or abdominal obesity is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk. This cross-sectional study involved 4,573 subjects aged 30 to 74 yr who participated in the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in 2008. Obesity phenotype was classified by means of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), and participants were...
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