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

Carlsson, Axel C ; Wändell, Per LU ; Riserus, Ulf ; Arnlöv, Johan ; Borné, Yan LU ; Engström, Gunnar LU ; Leander, Karin ; Gigante, Bruna ; Hellénius, Mai-Lis and de Faire, Ulf (2014) In Preventive Medicine 69. p.151-156
Abstract
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.
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69
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151 - 156
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1096-0260
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10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.09.020
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English
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  author       = {{Carlsson, Axel C and Wändell, Per and Riserus, Ulf and Arnlöv, Johan and Borné, Yan and Engström, Gunnar and Leander, Karin and Gigante, Bruna and Hellénius, Mai-Lis and de Faire, Ulf}},
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  series       = {{Preventive Medicine}},
  title        = {{Differences in anthropometric measures in immigrants and Swedish-born individuals: Results from two community-based cohort studies.}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.09.020}},
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