CENTRAL OBESITY AS A PREDICTOR OF CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Central obesity is one of the coronary artery diseases (CAD) risk factors that has been regarded, recently.There are several methods for measuring abdominal obesity.We used abdominal diameter index (ADI) as an index of abdominal obesity and studied its relation to CAD. METHODS: 180 patients [90 male a