Childbearing may increase visceral adipose tissue independent of overall increase in body fat

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1078-1084

  Gunderson, Erica P ^a   Sternfeld, Barbara ^a   Wellons, Melissa F ^b   Whitmer, Rachel A ^a   Chiang, Vicky ^a   Quesenberry Jr Jr , Charles P ^a   Lewis, Cora E ^b   Sidney, Stephen ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42949150861     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.40     Document Type: Article

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