Abdominal fatness, particularly waist-to-hip ratio, is significantly associated with early, clinically silent coronary atherosclerosis and mild cardiac hypertrophy in young men.
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Waist-to-hip ratio may mark early subclinical atherosclerosis in young men; leaves open causality and intervention effects pending prospective data.
Kortelainen et al. (1997) studied this question.
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