Regional body volumes, BMI, waist circumference, and percentage fat in severely obese adults

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2688-2698

  Wang, Jack ^a   Gallagher, Dympna ^a   Thornton, John C ^a   Yu, Wen ^a   Weil, Rich ^a   Kovac, Betty ^a   Pi Sunyer, F Xavier ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; Body fat distribution; Body image

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

TULIP BREAKING VIRUS;

EID: 38049042469     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.321     Document Type: Article

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