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Deriving an optimal threshold of waist circumference for detecting cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan Africa
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Waist circumference (WC) thresholds derived from western populations continue to be used in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite increasing evidence of ethnic variation in the association between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease and availability of data from African populations. We aimed to derive a SSA-specific optimal WC cut-point for identifying individuals at increased cardiometabolic risk.We used individual level cross-sectional data on 24 181 participants aged ⩾15 years from 17 studies...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Obesity Journal website
- Volume:
- 42
- Pages:
- 487-494
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-5497
- ISSN:
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0307-0565
- Pmid:
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29087388
- Source identifiers:
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742389
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- English
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- pubs:742389
- Deposit date:
- 2017-12-01
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- © Ekoru, et al 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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