Measuring abdominal adiposity in 6 to 7-year-old children

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 835-841

  Liem, E T ^a,b   De Lucia Rolfe, E ^b,c   L'Abee C ^a,b   Sauer, P J J ^a   Ong, K K ^c,d   Stolk, R P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MRC EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650248577     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2008.57     Document Type: Article

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