The ability of waist-to-height ratio to identify health risk

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the ratio between the waist circumference and the height in the identification of health risk compared with the correlation matrix between the anthropometric parameters body mass index and waist circumference. METHODS A population-based study pre...

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Main Authors: Márcia Mara Corrêa, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Elaine Thumé, Elizabete Regina Araújo de Oliveira, Elaine Tomasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102019000100265&lng=en&tlng=en