Patterns of Abdominal Fat Distribution The Framingham Heart Study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 481-485

  Pou, Karla M ^a   Massaro, Joseph M ^b   Hoffmann, Udo ^c   Lieb, Kathrin ^d   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^d   O'Donnell, Christopher J ^c,d   Fox, Caroline S ^a,c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 64749100502     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1359     Document Type: Article

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