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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">MUJAST</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Mountain Top University Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title>MUJAST</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2736-2310</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Mountain Top University</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Prayer City, Ogun State, Nigeria</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">LEGACY-gy9u5m</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.mtu/legacy-gy9u5m</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Conicity Index an Anthropometric Predictor of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases Amongst Young Adults</article-title>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name>
          <surname>Uzoeghelu</surname>
          <given-names>Uzoeghelu</given-names>
        </name>
        <aff id="aff-1">Mountain Top University, Nigeria</aff>
        

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      <contrib contrib-type="author" >
        <name>
          <surname>Ugbenyen</surname>
          <given-names>Chinaza Precious and</given-names>
        </name>
        <aff id="aff-2">Mountain Top University, Nigeria</aff>
        

      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author" >
        <name>
          <surname>Moses*</surname>
          <given-names>Anthony</given-names>
        </name>
        <aff id="aff-3">Mountain Top University, Nigeria</aff>
        

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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2023 Mountain Top University. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0).</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Mountain Top University</copyright-holder>
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        <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
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          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
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        <p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Measurement of an individual&apos;s anthropometric indices is one of the many methods for determining physical health status; others include measurement of biochemical markers and clinical indices. Little information is known about the relationship between conicity index in predicting diseases. The study was aimed at finding the association between conicity index, biochemical and clinical indices in predicting disease conditions. This study was carried out on 87 undergraduates of Edo State University, Uzairue with 44 of them being males and 43 of them being females. The Socio-demographic data were collected using a structured questionnaire, and the anthropometric indices, biochemical and clinical indices were measured. There was a statistically significant difference in the comparison of male and female respondents in their weight, height, waist circumference, fat, visceral fat, water and muscles at (p &amp;lt; 0.05). Conicity Index (CI) was statistically significant and positively correlated with obesity, muscle and diastolic blood pressure at (p &amp;lt; 0.01), positively correlated with systolic blood pressure and visceral fat (p &amp;lt;0.05) and a correlation with blood glucose and cholesterol level. The results of the study showed that Conicity Index had a correlation with clinical and biochemical indices. This makes it a factor for predicting cardiovascular disease, hypertension and central obesity and may be a predicting factor for diabetes mellitus and dyslipidaemia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>
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        <kwd>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Anthropometric indices, Biochemical and Clinical indices, Conicity Index&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</kwd>
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