Development of a new method for estimating visceral fat area with multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-112

  Nagai, Masato ^a   Komiya, Hideaki ^a,b   Mori, Yutaka ^c   Ohta, Teruo ^d   Kasahara, Yasuhiro ^e   Ikeda, Yoshio ^e  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kawachi gun   (Japan)

^d Sirasawa Hospital   (Japan)

^e TANITA Body Weight Scientific Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioelectrical impedance; Body composition; Computed tomography; Visceral fat; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41949085915     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.214.105     Document Type: Article

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