Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 460-468

  Pouliot, Marie Christine ^a   Després, Jean Pierre ^a   Lemieux, Simone ^a   Moorjani, Sital ^a   Bouchard, Claude ^a   Tremblay, Angelo ^a   Nadeau, André ^a   Lupien, Paul J ^a  

^a Diabetes Research Unit ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISCERA;

EID: 0028299585     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90676-9     Document Type: Article

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