Visceral adipose tissue cutoffs associated with metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease in women

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1413-1420

  Nicklas, Barbara J ^a   Penninx, Brenda W J H ^a   Ryan, Alice S ^b   Berman, Dora M ^b   Lynch, Nicole A ^b   Dennis, Karen E ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HORMONE; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIPOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; VISCERA;

EID: 0041667936     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.5.1413     Document Type: Article

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