Gerald Reaven, MD
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Adiposity indices in the prediction of metabolic abnormalities associated with cardiovascular disease in non-diabetic adults.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2011; (8): 553-60
The prevalence of insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease (CVD) increases with degree of obesity. Whether measurements of generalized and abdominal obesity differ in the ability to predict changes associated with increased CVD risk is widely debated. We compared the prevalence of metabolic abnormalities in 275 women and 204 men stratified by categories of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), and assessed the ability of these adiposity indices in combination with metabolic risk variables to predict insulin resistance.
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