ea0037ep566 | Obesity and cardiovascular endocrinology | ECE2015
Arnaiz-Villena Antonio
, Areces Cristina
, Enriquez-de-Salamanca Mercedes
, Muniz Ester
, Martinez-Quiles Narcisa
, Martin-Villa Jose Manuel
, Vargas Pablo
, Rey Diego
Metabolic syndrome and obesity are principal causes of morbidity all over the world, particularly for their association to cardiovascular risk. There is now an obesity worldwide epidemic (Globesity). Amerindians are often living in countries and remote areas with unavailable sophisticated diagnoses methodologies. However, waist circumference is a reliable and easy to record parameter of visceral obesity and MS. Waist circumference normal values are not yet established in Ameri...