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Relation of waist-hip ratio to glucose tolerance, blood pressure, and serum lipids in middle-aged Japanese males.

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1995

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Yutaka Sakurai, Suminori Kono, Koichi Shinchi, Satoshi Honjo, Isao Todoroki, K Wakabayashi, Koji Imanishi, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Satoshi Ogawa, Mitsuhiko Katsurada
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Abstract

WHR is an important contributor not only to NIDDM but also to impaired glucose tolerance, blood pressure, and serum lipids, although the associations of WHR with blood pressure and serum lipids were generally weaker than those of BMI, except for triglycerides.