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Measurement error and ethnic comparisons of measures of abdominal obesity
Preventive Medicine, 10/20/09

Dhaliwal SS et al. – Waist to hip ratio provides a superior measure of central obesity with low measurement error, high precision, and no bias over a wide range of ethnic groups. The authors believe that it is essential to standardize methods in the assessment of central obesity. Assessment criteria should be based on waist to hip ratio rather than waist circumference.

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