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July 1, 2024BMJ OpenOpen Access

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its association with CT-based central adiposity measures: a cross-sectional study at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan

Z Hussain Aysha Habib Zafar Sajjad

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Abstract

To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and association of central obesity measures such as body mass index (BMI), visceral fat adiposity (VFA) and superficial fat adiposity (SFA) with MS, diabetes (DM) and hypertension (HTN).

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Hussain et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e62391b6db6435875b60d5 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082095

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