Body circumferences: Clinical implications emerging from a new geometric model

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Heymsfield, Steven B ^a   Martin Nguyen, Allison ^a   Fong, Tung M ^a   Gallagher, Dympna ^b   Pietrobelli, Angelo ^c  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MODEL; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHOLE BODY MRI;

EID: 54049143644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17437075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-5-24     Document Type: Article

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