Waist circumference and sagittal diameter reflect total body fat better than visceral fat in older men and women. The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 904, Issue , 2000, Pages 462-473

  Harris, Tamara B ^a,j   Visser, Marjolein ^b   Everhart, James ^c   Cauley, Jane ^d   Tylavsky, Frances ^e   Fuerst, Thomas ^f,g   Zamboni, Mauro ^h   Taaffe, Dennis ^a   Resnick, Helaine E ^a   Scherzinger, Ann ⁱ   Nevitt, Michael ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SYNARC INC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034044187     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06501.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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