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Article: Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio of Hong Kong Chinese children.(Research article)(Report)
- Article from:
- BMC Public Health
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Authors: Rita YT Sung (corresponding author) [1]; Hung-Kwan So [1]; Kai-Chow Choi [2]; Edmund AS Nelson [1]; Albert M Li [1]; Jane AT Yin [1]; Charlotte WL Kwok [1]; Pak-Cheung Ng [1]; Tai-Fai Fok [1]
Background
Central obesity in both adults [1, 2, 3] and children [4, 5, 6] is related to cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance and hypertension). Waist circumference (WC) and WC-derived indices such as waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio (WHTR) have been used as proxy measures of central obesity, the former being widely used in adults [7, 8]. There is growing evidence however that waist circumference (WC) alone ...
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