Comparison of waist circumference with body mass index for predicting abdominal adipose tissue

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-105

  Oka, Rie ^a   Miura, Katsuyuki ^b   Sakurai, Masaru ^c   Nakamura, Koshi ^c   Yagi, Kunimasa ^d   Miyamoto, Susumu ^a   Moriuchi, Tadashi ^a   Mabuchi, Hiroshi ^d   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^d   Takeda, Yoshiyu ^d   Hifumi, Senshu ^a   Inazu, Akihiro ^d   Nohara, Atsushi ^d   Kawashiri, Masa aki ^d   Kobayashi, Junji ^d  

^a Hokuriku Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMI; Central obesity; Visceral adipose tissue; Waist

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPANESE; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 58049083844     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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