Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Both obesity and presence of certain patterns of lipid abnormalities has consistently been identified as a strong determinants of cardiovascular health. In resource limited populations, it is important to ascertain methods of reducing resources utilisation by identifying simple measures to cardiovascular risk. Considering the relative ease of measuring anthropometries (BMI, waist circumference-WC, and waist-hip ratio-WHR) data, we sought to determine if any measure...