Waist versus weight-which matters more for mortality?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1003-1004

  Moore, Steven C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADIPOSITY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 63649094766     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27598     Document Type: Editorial

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