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Effects of waist to height ratio, waist circumference, body mass index on the risk of chronic diseases, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality

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  • Kenneth Lo Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China Centre for Global Cardiometabolic Health, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yu-Qing Huang Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Geng Shen Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jia-Yi Huang Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lin Liu Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yu-Ling Yu Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chao-Lei Chen Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ying Qing Feng Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Hypertension Research Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kenneth Lo, Centre for Global Cardiometabolic Health, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA; kenneth_lo{at}brown.edu
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Lo K, Huang Y, Shen G, et al
Effects of waist to height ratio, waist circumference, body mass index on the risk of chronic diseases, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2021;97:306-311.

Publication history

  • Received January 25, 2020
  • Revised March 2, 2020
  • Accepted April 17, 2020
  • First published May 5, 2020.
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May 05, 2021

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