Body mass index and waist circumference cutoffs to define obesity in indigenous New Zealanders | Zendy

Rachael W. Taylor | Zendy; Lorraine Alice Brooking | Zendy; Sheila Williams | Zendy; Patrick J. Manning | Zendy; W. H. F. Sutherland | Zendy; Kirsten Coppell | Zendy; David TipeneLeach | Zendy; Kelly Dale | Zendy; Kirsten A. McAuley | Zendy; Jim Mann | Zendy

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Body mass index and waist circumference cutoffs to define obesity in indigenous New Zealanders

Author(s) -

Rachael W. Taylor,

Lorraine Alice Brooking,

Sheila Williams,

Patrick J. Manning,

W. H. F. Sutherland,

Kirsten Coppell,

David TipeneLeach,

Kelly Dale,

Kirsten A. McAuley,

Jim Mann

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american journal of clinical nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1938-3207

pISSN - 0002-9165

DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29317

Subject(s) - waist , circumference , body mass index , obesity , indigenous , body volume index , waist to height ratio , index (typography) , body shape index , medicine , demography , fat mass , classification of obesity , mathematics , biology , sociology , computer science , ecology , world wide web , geometry

The suggestion that body mass index (BMI) cutoffs to define obesity should differ in persons of Polynesian descent compared with Europeans is based principally on the observation that persons of Polynesian descent have a relatively higher proportion of lean body mass for a given BMI.

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