All the world loves to mock obese Americans, but weightier issues lurk in Asia, where diabetes and heart disease run rampant. The first hurdle may be a Western measure that is blind to the expanding fat in Asians' deceptively thin bodies.
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Mandavilli, A., Cyranoski, D. News Feature: Asia's big problem. Nat Med 10, 325–327 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0404-325
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