Open AccessSite or Size of Waist Circumference, Which one is More important in Metabolic Syndrome?
Author(s) -
Syed Mohd Razi,
Manish Gutch,
Gupta Kumar Keshav,
Kumar Sukriti,
Abhinav Gupta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of medicine and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2230-8598
DOI - 10.5530/ijmedph.2016.2.4
Subject(s) - waist , abdominal obesity , circumference , metabolic syndrome , medicine , obesity , mathematics , geometry
Abdominal obesity is one of the pivotal factors in defining the metabolic syndrome. Abdominal obesity is assessed by the various clinical surrogates among which waist circumference is considered to be simple, inexpensive & sensitive tool. But various controversies surround the exact cut offs and the ideal sites of waist circumference measurement, so in this review we discussed these issues.
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