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International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyl287
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Why are South Asians susceptible to central obesity? — the El Niño hypothesis

Jonathan CK Wells

Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH.

E-mail: J.Wells@ich.ucl.ac.uk

Accepted 29 November 2006

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At the beginning of George Orwell's Animal Farm, we learn of the rebellious animals’ seven commandments, of which the last is the admirable statement that ‘all animals are equal’.1 By the end of the book, this commandment has been altered to read ‘all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’.1 So it is with body mass index (BMI). In general, increasing BMI is associated with increasing body fat content, but for any given BMI value South Asians tend to have substantially greater body fat, in particular abdominal fat, than Europeans.2 This enhanced abdominal adiposity is believed to play a key role in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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