Combined use of waist and hip circumference to identify abdominally obese HIV-infected patients at increased health risk.

Combined use of waist and hip circumference to identify abdominally obese HIV-infected patients at increased health risk.

<h4>Objectives</h4>To determine whether for a given waist circumference (WC), a larger hip circumference (HC) was associated with a reduced risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in HIV-infected patients. A second objective was to...

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Main Authors: Trevor O'Neill, Giovanni Guaraldi, Gabriella Orlando, Federica Carli, Elisa Garlassi, Stefano Zona, Jean-Pierre Després, Robert Ross
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/098608a0e32f42d69a29aabee1bbe0a9
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