Health

Vol.5 No.8C(2013), Paper ID 35784, 7 pages

DOI:10.4236/health.2013.58A3003

 

Performance of waist circumference relative to BMI in predicting risk of obesity and hypertension among affluent Indian adults

 

Shobha Rao, Prajakta Parab-Waingankar

 

Biometry and Nutrition Unit, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India
Biometry and Nutrition Unit, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India

 

Copyright © 2013 Shobha Rao, Prajakta Parab-Waingankar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Rao, S. and Parab-Waingankar, P. (2013) Performance of waist circumference relative to BMI in predicting risk of obesity and hypertension among affluent Indian adults. Health, 5, 16-22. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.58A3003.
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