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Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth:a cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort

Description : Background While the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has ethnic specific waist circumference (WC) cut-points for the metabolic syndrome for Asian populations it is not known whether the cut-points for black populations should differ from those for European populations. We examined the validi...
Language(s) : English
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Publisher(s) : BioMed Central
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Publication Date(s) : 2010-01-01