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Article: Body mass index, waist circumference contribute independent information.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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2002 JUN 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanne Nelson, staff medical writer - Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) both contribute independent information in determining obesity and increased risk for various diseases, researchers in Canada report.
"Independent of age and sex, the combination of BMI and WC explained a greater variance in nonabdominal, abdominal subcutaneous, and visceral fat than did either BMI or WC alone," said Robert Ross and colleagues at Queens University in Kingston.
The researchers investigated whether BMI and WC independently contributed to the prediction of both total fat and abdominal fat and, if combined, ...