Fares Abdelghani Abdelrab <br/><br/>
Correlation between waist circumference (WC) versus body mass index (BMI) and cardiometabolic risk factors in Egyptians /  
 العلاقة بين محيط الخصر مقابل دليل كتلة الجسم وعوامل خطر الأيض القلبى فى المصريين 
Fares A. Ghani A. Rab ; Supervised Ebtissam Zakaria , Mary Nabil Rizk , Nashwa Said Mohamed 
 - Cairo :   Fares Abdelghani Abdelrab ,   2009 
 - 97P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine 
<br/><br/> Central obesity a prominent feature of metabolic syndrome and obesity contributes to premature mortality from all cause of death including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer but obesity is not included in standard multi variable risk assessments because of major imperfections in its measurement . Body Mass Index (BMI) performs poorly as a predictor of death except in very large population cohorts 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cardiovascular disease  Metabolic syndrome obesity Waist circumference