Metabolic syndrome in Japanese men and women with special reference to the anthropometric criteria for the assessment of obesity: Proposal to use the waist-to-height ratio
- 28 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Preventive Medicine
- Vol. 42 (2), 135-139
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.08.007
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