Monozygotic co-twin analyses of body composition measurements and serum lipids

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 358-365

  Wang, Binyan ^a   Necheles, Jonathan ^b   Ouyang, Fengxiu ^a   Ma, Wei ^c   Li, Zhiping ^d   Liu, Xue ^d   Yang, Jianhua ^d   Xing, Houxun ^d   Xu, Xiping ^e   Wang, Xiaobin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^d ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Body fat; Body mass index; Chinese; Lean body mass; Monozygotic twins; Obesity; Serum lipids

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; TRIGLYCERIDES; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 35748946319     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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