Reduction of visceral fat is associated with decrease in the number of metabolic risk factors in Japanese men

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2392-2394

  Okauchi, Yukiyoshi ^a   Nishizawa, Hitoshi ^a   Funahashi, Tohru ^a   Ogawa, Tomoko ^b   Noguchi, Midori ^b   Ryo, Miwa ^a   Kihara, Shinji ^a   Iwahashi, Hiromi ^a   Yamagata, Kazuya ^a   Nakamura, Tadashi ^a   Shimomura, Iichiro ^a   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Amagasaki City Office   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34548426101     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0218     Document Type: Article

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