Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Central obesity

RE: diagnosis of central obesity. Simple waist measurements, and the waist:hip ratio, are good estimates of "central obesity" but not accurate for this reason: it does not distinguish between the subcutaneous fat (under skin but over the muscles) and the intraabdominal fat (in the abdominal cavity). There is a reference article found at http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/6/697, which is an online journal of the Endocrine Society.

Subcutaneous fat has not been linked to detrimental health effects. 68.149.171.143 (talk) 16:51, 9 February 2009 (UTC) hjeongphillips@yahoo.ca