Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 969-976, September 2005

Waist circumference criteria for the diagnosis of abdominal obesity are not applicable uniformly to all populations and ethnic groups

Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Received 23 September 2004; accepted 20 January 2005. published online 30 June 2005.

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 This review was supported in part by a grant from the Science and Society Division, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00162-0

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2005.01.007

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 969-976, September 2005