Waist circumference cut-off points to identify major cardiovascular events and incident diabetes in Latin America: findings from the prospective Urban rural epidemiology study Colombia

Waist circumference cut-off points to identify major cardiovascular events and incident diabetes in Latin America: findings from the prospective Urban rural epidemiology study Colombia

BackgroundAbdominal obesity (AO) indirectly represents visceral adiposity and can be assessed by waist circumference (WC) measurement. In Latin America, cut-off points for the diagnosis of AO are based on Asian population data. We aim to establish the WC cut-off points to predict major cardiovascula...

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Main Authors: Jose P. Lopez-Lopez, Ana María Gonzalez, Paola Lanza, Daniel Martinez-Bello, Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Johanna Otero, Daniel D. Cohen, Maritza Perez-Mayorga, Angel A. Garcia-Peña, Sumathy Rangarajan, Salim Yusuf, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
abdominal obesity
waist circumference
major cardiovascular events
diabetes
Latin America
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1204885/full

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