Why the study?
Do obesity measures (BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) predict the accumulation of metabolic risk factors in a community-based Japanese population?
Do obesity measures (BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) predict the accumulation of metabolic risk factors in a community-based Japanese population?
Waist-to-hip ratio may be the most valuable measure of obesity for predicting metabolic risk factors, though BMI and waist circumference also correlate well.
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WHR may offer modest predictive edge in Japanese adults; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Nakamura et al. (2007) studied this question.
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