Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity is one of the leading causes of elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and morbidity. Several indicators of abdominal obesity such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are available. BMI and WC have limitations in stratifying cardio-metabolic risks. Another obesity measure, A Body Shape Index (ABSI), has been introduced but its applicability remains limited. To address this, the z-score of the log-transformed ABSI (LBSIZ) was recently develope...