Article
Sagittal abdominal diameter and waist circumference are equally good as identifiers of cardiometabolic risk
2019-04-05
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are commonly used markers of cardiometabolic risk. However, sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) has been proposed to be a better marker of intra-abdominal obesity compared to WC and might better associate with metabolic disturbances in high-risk populations. The objective of this study was to compare SAD, WC, and BMI as determinants of an advers...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8395b49f-9463-5307-a9a7-62fac41aff58
- DOI
- 10.1101/598078
