Diabetes in Urban African Americans. XII. Anthropometry for assessing municipal hospital outpatients recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes

Obesity Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 238-245

  Kahn, Henry S ^a,b   Dunbar, Virginia G ^a   Ziemer, David C ^a   Phillips, Lawrence S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Family and Preventive Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; C peptide; Cholesterol; Insulin resistance; Obesity

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPINE POSITION; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; C-PEPTIDE; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SUPINE POSITION; TRIGLYCERIDES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032061052     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1998.tb00343.x     Document Type: Article

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