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Ratio of Trunk to Leg Volume as a New Body Shape Metric for Diabetes and Mortality
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Abstract
Background:Body shape is a known risk factor for diabetes and mortality, but the methods estimating body shape, BMI and waist circumference are crude. We determined whether a novel body shape measure, trunk to leg volume ratio, was independently associated
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