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Neck circumference as a marker of obesity and a predictor of cardiometabolic risk among Saudi subjects

Eman M. Alfadhli, Alaa A. Sandokji, Basma N. Zahid, Mohammed A. Makkawi, Reem F. Alshenaifi, Tafani S. Thani and Hanan A. Habeeb
Saudi Medical Journal December 2017, 38 (12) 1219-1223; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.20926
Eman M. Alfadhli
From the Department of Medicine (Sandokji, Thani, Alshenaifi, Zahid, Makkawi), College of Medicine, Taibah University, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Habeeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Alaa A. Sandokji
From the Department of Medicine (Sandokji, Thani, Alshenaifi, Zahid, Makkawi), College of Medicine, Taibah University, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Habeeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Basma N. Zahid
From the Department of Medicine (Sandokji, Thani, Alshenaifi, Zahid, Makkawi), College of Medicine, Taibah University, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Habeeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed A. Makkawi
From the Department of Medicine (Sandokji, Thani, Alshenaifi, Zahid, Makkawi), College of Medicine, Taibah University, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Habeeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Reem F. Alshenaifi
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Tafani S. Thani
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Hanan A. Habeeb
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vol. 38 no. 12 1219-1223
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.12.20926
PubMed 
29209671

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 17, 2017
  • Accepted October 22, 2017
  • Published online March 3, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Eman M. Alfadhli, MD⇑,
  2. Alaa A. Sandokji, MBBS,
  3. Basma N. Zahid, MBBS,
  4. Mohammed A. Makkawi, MBBS,
  5. Reem F. Alshenaifi, MBBS,
  6. Tafani S. Thani, MBBS and
  7. Hanan A. Habeeb, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Sandokji, Thani, Alshenaifi, Zahid, Makkawi), College of Medicine, Taibah University, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Habeeb), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Eman M. Alfadhli, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alfadhli2005{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID orcid.org/0000-0003-3842-4979
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