Obesity
Research on obesity reported by J.A. Allawati et al
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 20th, 2008
"To determine gender-specific optimal cut-off points for body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WER) associated with elevated prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among Omani Arabs. A community-based cross-sectional study. The survey was conducted in the city of Nizwa in Oman in 2001. The study contained a probabilistic random sample of 1421 adults aged >= 20 years. Prevalent CVD risk was defined as the presence of at...
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