IJSRP, Volume 7, Issue 12, December 2017 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Gayathri Rathnayake, Usha Hettiaratchi, Rasika perera
Abstract:
Obesity is associated with insulin resistance and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Usage of measures of obesity including anthropometric parameters and body fat percentage assessment, in general practice is scarce in some counties except for body mass index.