Relationship between changes in body weight and waist circumference in Japanese

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 220-223

  Miyatake, Nobuyuki ^a,d   Matsumoto, Sumiko ^a   Miyachi, Motohiko ^b   Fujii, Masafumi ^c   Numata, Takeyuki ^a  

^a Okayama Health Foundation   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d Okayama Southern Institute of Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body fat percentage; Body weight; Hip circumference; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIP; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MALE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE;

EID: 36148990279     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.12.220     Document Type: Article

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