Differences in anthropometric measures in immigrants and Swedish-born individuals: Results from two community-based cohort studies.

Summary, in English

To study differences in body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), waist circumference (WC), sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD), waist-hip-height ratio (WHHR) and percent body fat in immigrants and Swedish-born men and women in two large population-based samples.

• Författare: Axel C Carlsson; Per Wändell; Ulf Riserus; Johan Arnlöv; Yan Borné; Gunnar Engström; Karin Leander; Bruna Gigante; Mai-Lis Hellénius; Ulf de Faire
• Avdelning/ar: Allmänmedicin och klinisk epidemiologi; Kardiovaskulär forskning - epidemiologi; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publiceringsår: 2014
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 151-156
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Preventive Medicine
• Volym: 69
• Länkar: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25284260?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.09.020
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Elsevier
• Ämne: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Cardiovascular Research - Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1096-0260