Free-living physical activity energy expenditure is strongly related to glucose intolerance in cameroonian adults independently of obesity

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 367-369

  Assah, Felix K ^a   Ekelund, Ulf ^a   Brage, Soren ^a   Mbanya, Jean Claude ^b   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CALORIMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAMEROON; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; CAMEROON; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 61849165102     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1538     Document Type: Article

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