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Do body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio affect the risk of total and type-specific stroke in men and women?
Do body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio affect the risk of total and type-specific stroke in men and women?
Body mass index is a risk factor for stroke in both sexes, whereas abdominal adiposity increases stroke risk specifically in men.
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Supports sex-specific adiposity-stroke associations in observational data; leaves open causal roles and whether abdominal measures improve risk prediction beyond BMI.
Body mass index was a risk factor for total and ischemic stroke in men and women. Abdominal adiposity was a risk factor for total and ischemic stroke only in men.
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Hu et al. (2007) studied this question.
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