Pattern of Obesity Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at a Tertiary Healthcare Center in Northern Nigeria.
Ibrahim D GezawaAndrew E UlokoBaffa A GwaramDaiyabu A IbrahimEjiofor T UgwuIdris Y MohammedPublished in: Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy (2019)
The prevalence of obesity in our cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes was high. The predominant form of obesity was central obesity, which was most prevalent when indexed by WHR. The WhtR was as good as the WHR, but fared better than WC in detecting central obesity in our patients.