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Diagnostic performance of waist-to-height ratio in identifying cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome among adult Saudis

A cross-sectional study

Rasmieh Alzeidan, Amel Fayed, Fatemeh Rabiee, Ahmad Hersi and Hala Elmorshedy
Saudi Medical Journal March 2020, 41 (3) 253-260; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24915

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vol. 41 no. 3 253-260
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24915
PubMed 
32114597
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 3, 2019
  • Accepted January 6, 2020
  • Published online March 1, 2020.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Rasmieh Alzeidan, BS Pharm, PhD,
  2. Amel Fayed, MD, PhD⇑,
  3. Fatemeh Rabiee, MScPH, PhD,
  4. Ahmad Hersi, MD, FRCPC and
  5. Hala Elmorshedy, MD, PhD
  1. From the Cardiac Sciences Department (Alzeidan, Hersi), King Saud University; from the College of Medicine (Fayed, Elmorshedy), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the High Institute of Public Health (Fayed, Elmorshedy), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; and from the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences (Rabiee), Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Amel A. Fayed, College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: fayedam_200{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-0486
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