Resting metabolic rate in obese, premenopausal black women

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 531-538

  Albu, Jeanine ^a,b   Shur, Meredith ^a   Curi, Michael ^a   Murphy, Laura ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^a   Pi Sunyer, F Xavier ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Body composition; Dual photon X ray absorptiometry; Ethnicity; Fat free mass; Hydrodensitometry; Obesity; Resting energy expenditure; Resting metabolic rate; Total body potassium; Total body water; White women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITOMETRY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLIC RATE; OBESITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREMENOPAUSE; REST; TOTAL BODY WATER;

EID: 0030839522     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/66.3.531     Document Type: Article

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