High prevalence of abdominal, intra-abdominal and subcutaneous adiposity and clustering of risk factors among urban Asian Indians in North India.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of abdominal obesity including intra-abdominal and subcutaneous adiposity along with other cardiometabolic risk factors in urban Asian Indians living in New Delhi. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional epidemiological descriptive study with 459 subjects (217 mal...

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Main Authors: Swati Bhardwaj, Anoop Misra, Ranjita Misra, Kashish Goel, Surya Prakash Bhatt, Kavita Rastogi, Naval K Vikram, Seema Gulati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3176774?pdf=render