BMI and objectively measured body fat and body fat distribution in prepubertal children

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-16

  Dencker, Magnus ^a   Thorsson, Ola ^a   Lindén, Christian ^a   Wollmer, Per ^a   Andersen, Lars B ^b   Karlsson, Magnus K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body fat; Body Mass Index; Children; Dual Energy X Ray Absorptiometry

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845517793     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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