Prediction of visceral fat area in Japanese adults: Proposal of prediction method applicable in a field setting

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 727-735

  Demura, S ^a   Sato, S ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THORAX; UMBILICUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST HIP RATIO; BODY COMPOSITION; HISTOLOGY; IMPEDANCE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIODENSITOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34447102834     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602576     Document Type: Article

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