Abstract
Background:Waist circumference (WC) thresholds derived from western populations continue to be used in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite increasing evidence of ethnic variation in the association between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease and availability of data from African populations. We aimed to derive a SSA-specific optimal WC cut-point for identifying individuals at increased cardiometabolic risk.Methods:We used individual level cross-sectional data on 24 181 participants aged
Original language | English |
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Journal | International Journal of Obesity |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 487-494 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISSN | 0307-0565 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |