Combined use of waist and hip circumference to identify high-risk HIV-infected patients

Objectives: To determine whether for a given waist circumference (WC), a larger hip circumference (HC) was associated with a reduced risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in HIV-infected patients. A second objective was to determine whethe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Neill, Trevor
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2012
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7426