TY - BOOK AU - Fares Abdelghani Abdelrab AU - Ebtissam Zakaria , AU - Mary Nabil Rizk , AU - Nashwa Said Mohamed , TI - Correlation between waist circumference (WC) versus body mass index (BMI) and cardiometabolic risk factors in Egyptians / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Fares Abdelghani Abdelrab , KW - Cardiovascular disease KW - Metabolic syndrome obesity KW - Waist circumference N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -