How useful is waist circumference for assessment of abdominal obesity in Korean pre-menopausal women during weight loss?
Abstract
Asian women are known to have a larger amount of abdominal fat (AF) for the same level of BMI compared with Caucasian and African-American women. This study was aimed to determine whether waist circumference (WC) could be useful as an index of AF compared with AF measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) before and after a weight-loss program in Asian women. Thirty-eight healthy, pre-menopausal obese Korean women (body fat percent>30%)...
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How useful is waist circumference for assessment of abdominal obesity in Korean pre-menopausal women during weight loss?
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Jan 1, 2008
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