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Waist Circumference and Mortality or Cardiovascular Events in a General Korean Population
2021-09-28
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, body mass index (BMI) has a limited ability to measure abdominal obesity. We aimed to evaluate the associations between waist circumference (WC) and mortality or CVD incidence in a general Korean population. We analyzed a total of 204,068 adults older than 40 years of age who had undergone a national health examination in the Korean National Health...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 364d1994-3172-52af-a61b-bdfb51fda7be
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-926930/v1
