Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

Ross, Robert; J. Neeland, Ian; Yamashita, Shizuya; Shai, Iris; Seidell, Jaap; Magni, Paolo; D. Santos, Raúl; J. Arsenault, Benoît; Cuevas, Ada; B. Hu, Frank; A. Griffin, Bruce; Zambon, Alberto; J. Barter, Philip; Fruchart, Jean‐Charles; H. Eckel, Robert; Matsuzawa, Yūji; Després, Jean‐Pierre

doi:10.1038/s41574-019-0310-7

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Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

Published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology • Feb 4, 2020

Authors:

Robert Ross

Ian J. Neeland

Shizuya Yamashita

Abstract

Despite decades of unequivocal evidence that waist circumference provides both independent and additive information to BMI for predicting morbidity and risk of death, this measurement is not routinely obtained in clinical practice. This Consensus Statement proposes that measurements of waist circumf...

Subject

Waist

Medicine

Circumference

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