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Published in Nutrition Today • Mar 1, 2011
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Authors:
Margaret Ashwell

Abstract

In Brief The benefits and limitations of anthropometric measures (weight and shape) to assess the health risks of obesity are discussed. They include the body mass index, the waist-to-hip ratio, the waist circumference (WC), and the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). The use of WHtR, a proxy for central ...

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