Measures of general and central obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes in a Ghanaian population

Diabetes mellitus type 2 in urban Ghana: characteristics and associated factors

(2012) Ina Danquah et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Deriving Ethnic-Specific BMI Cutoff Points for Assessing Diabetes Risk

(2011) Maria Chiu et al.   DIABETES CARE

Hypertension, obesity and central obesity in diabetics and non diabetics in Southern Ethiopia

(2011) A Giday et al.   Ethiopian Journal of Health Development

Comparison of Measures of Adiposity in Identifying Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Ethiopian Adults

(2011) Wint S. Wai et al.   Obesity

Ethnic-Specific BMI and Waist Circumference Thresholds

(2011) Peter T. Katzmarzyk et al.   Obesity

Incidence of diabetes in Asian-Indian subjects: A five year follow-up study from Bangladesh

(2011) Shaheen Asghar et al.   Primary Care Diabetes

FTO Genetic Variation and Association With Obesity in West Africans and African Americans

(2010) A. Adeyemo et al.   DIABETES

Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa

(2010) Jean Claude N Mbanya et al.   LANCET

Waist-to-hip ratio is a better anthropometric index than body mass index for predicting the risk of type 2 diabetes in Taiwanese population

(2010) Chien-Hsiang Cheng et al.   NUTRITION RESEARCH

Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Is Differentially Associated with Variation in FTO in Whites and African-Americans in the ARIC Study

(2010) Jan Bressler et al.   PLoS One

Racial differences in abdominal depot–specific adiposity in white and African American adults

(2009) Peter T Katzmarzyk et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

FTOgene variation and measures of body mass in an African population

(2009) Branwen J Hennig et al.   BMC Medical Genetics

Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?

(2009) Abdhalah K Ziraba et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Using Alternate Anthropometric Measures in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study

(2009) M. F. MacKay et al.   DIABETES CARE

Body fat distribution and noncommunicable diseases in populations: overview of the 2008 WHO Expert Consultation on Waist Circumference and Waist–Hip Ratio

(2009) C Nishida et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

The optimal cutoff values and their performance of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio for diagnosing type II diabetes

(2009) Q Qiao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Is the association of type II diabetes with waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio stronger than that with body mass index?

(2009) Q Qiao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Appropriateness of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio cutoffs for different ethnic groups

(2009) S A Lear et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Abdominal Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Contribution to Global Cardiometabolic Risk

(2008) Jean-Pierre Després et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Diabetes and Other Disorders of Glycemia in a Rural South African Community: Prevalence and associated risk factors

(2008) A. A. Motala et al.   DIABETES CARE

BMI Compared With Central Obesity Indicators in Relation to Diabetes and Hypertension in Asians

(2008) et al.   Obesity

Ethnic comparisons of the cross-sectional relationships between measures of body size with diabetes and hypertension

(2008) R. Huxley et al.   Obesity Reviews