Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis

ObjectiveTo determine which simple index of overweight and obesity is the best discriminator of cardiovascular risk factors.Study Design and SettingThis is a meta-analysis of published literature. MEDLINE was searched. Studies that used receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis and published area under the ROC curves (AUC) for overweight and obesity indices with hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and/or dyslipidemia were included. The...