Cardiovascular Diabetology

Table 3 The prevalence of central obesity at baseline based on WC and WHtR criteria by age and gender

From: Cumulative increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus with increasing triglyceride glucose index in normal-weight people: The Rural Chinese Cohort Study

	N	Defined by WC		Defined by WHtR
	N	No. of individuals	Prevalence (%)	No. of individuals	Prevalence (%)
Men
18–39	450	8	1.78	40	8.89
40–59	1259	24	1.91	203	16.14
≥60	802	13	1.62	191	23.82
Women
18–39	846	100	11.82	129	15.25
40–59	1622	307	18.49	558	34.42
≥60	727	241	33.20	424	58.40

WC waist circumference, WHtR waist-to-height ratio

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