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Comparison of relative waist circumference between Asian Indian and US adults.

Journal of obesity - 1 Jan 2014

Bajaj Harpreet S, Pereira Mark A, Anjana Rajit Mohan, Deepa Raj, Mohan Viswanathan, Mueller Noel T, Rao Gundu H R, Gross Myron D

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BACKGROUND: Relative to Europeans, Asian Indians have higher rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Whether differences in body composition may underlie these population differences remains unclear. METHODS: We compared directly measured anthropometric data from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) survey of southern Indians (I) with those from three US ethnic groups (C: Caucasians, A:...

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PMID: 25328687
DOI: 10.1155/2014/461956
PMCID: PMC4189975

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