New body mass index criteria of central obesity for male Japanese

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-86

  Horie, Naoko ^a   Komiya, Hideaki ^a,b   Mori, Yutaka ^c   Tajima, Naoko ^d  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kawachi gun   (Japan)

^d JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optimal cut off value of BMI; Percentile; ROC curve; VFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; VISCERA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ROC CURVE;

EID: 29144515796     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.208.83     Document Type: Article

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