TY - JOUR AU - Baek, Younghwa AU - Park, Kihyun AU - Lee, Siwoo AU - Jang, Eunsu PY - 2014 DA - 2014/08/13 TI - The prevalence of general and abdominal obesity according to sasang constitution in Korea JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 298 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Obesity is an important risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and could affect mortality rates. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have been used to classify obesity, and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) has recently emerged as a discriminator of cardiovascular disease. Sasang constitution (SC) is a kind of well-known traditional Korean medicine: Tae-eumin (TE), Soeumin (SE), Taeyangin (TY) and Soyangin (SY) carrying a different level of susceptibility to chronic diseases. We aimed to examine the prevalence in general and abdominal obesity (AO) using BMI, WC and WHR according to SC in the Korean population. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-298 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-298 ID - Baek2014 ER -