Association of Wrist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Type II Diabetics in a Ghanaian Population

Table 1

IDF definition of metabolic syndrome (IDF, 2006).

According to IDF, for a person to be defined as having cardiometabolic risk, the person must have a WC of >90 cm for men and >80 cm for women or BMI > 30 kg/m^2 and any two of the following.
Dyslipidaemia	Raised triglyceride, TG	≥1.7 mmol/L or specific treatment for this lipid abnormality
	Reduced HDL-C	<1.03 mmol/L in males; <1.29 mmol/L in females or specific treatment for this lipid abnormality
Hypertension	Systolic blood pressure	≥130 mmHg
	Diastolic blood pressure	≥85 mmHg or treatment of previously diagnosed hypertension
Raised fasting plasma glucose	(FPG) ≥ 5.6 mmol/L or previously diagnosed diabetes