A proposal for a primary screening tool: `Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height’
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Title
A proposal for a primary screening tool: `Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height’
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Keywords
Obesity, Waist-to-height ratio, Morbidity, Mortality
Journal
BMC Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -
Publisher
Springer Nature
Online
2014-11-07
DOI
10.1186/s12916-014-0207-1
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