Internal Medicine
American Cancer Society reports research in internal medicine
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 6th, 2010
Scientists discuss in 'Waist circumference and all-cause mortality in a large US cohort' new findings in internal medicine. "Waist circumference (WC), a measure of abdominal obesity, is associated with higher mortality independent of body mass index (BMI). Less is known about the association between WC and mortality within categories of BMI or for the very high levels of WC that are now common," investigators in the United States report.
"We examined the association between WC and mortality among 48,500 men and 56,343 women, 50 years or older, in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort. A total of 9315 men and 5332 women died between 1997 and the end of...
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