Associations between gender, age and waist circumference

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-15

  Stevens, J ^a,b   Katz, E G ^a   Huxley, R R ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body composition; Body mass index (BMI); Cut points; Fat patterning; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGING; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN THERAPY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; GENDER; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MENOPAUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 75049084749     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.101     Document Type: Review

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