Body Mass Index And Waist Circumference Cutoffs To Define Obesity In Indigenous New Zealanders

Body Mass Index And Waist Circumference Cutoffs To Define Obesity In Indigenous New Zealanders Rachael W Taylor, Lorraine Brooking, Sheila M Williams, Patrick J Manning, Wayne H Sutherland, Kirsten J Coppell, David Tipene-Leach, Kelly S Dale, Kirsten A McAuley, and Jim I Mann, 2010 Background: The suggestion that body mass index (BMI) cutoffs to define obesity should differ in persons of Polynesian descent compared with Europeans is based principally on the observation that persons of...

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