Prediction of Abdominal Visceral Obesity from Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Waist-hip Ratio in Chinese Adults: Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves Analysis

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 206-211

  Jia, Wei Ping ^a   Lu, Jun Xi ^a   Xiang, Kun San ^a   Bao, Yu Qian ^a   Lu, Hui Juan ^a   Chen, Lei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abdominal visceral fat; Anthropometric parameters; Body mass index (BMI); Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HIP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0242329834     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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