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Mean waist circumference (cm) calculated using sex and age cohort in the West of Scotland Twenty-07: Health in the Community. Baseline data collected in 1991 from subjects aged 39 or 59 years. Follow up data from 1995 and 2000. Adapted from data presented in: Ebrahimi-Mameghani et al. (2008).
