Mid-thigh subcutaneous adipose tissue and glucose tolerance in the quebec family study

Obesity Facts

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 310-318

  Pigeon, Étienne ^a   Couillard, Érick ^a   Tremblay, Angelo ^a,b   Bouchard, Claude ^c   Weisnagel, S John ^a,d   Joanisse, Denis R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Computed tomography; Human; Insulin sensitivity; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUEBEC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75649107837     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177047     Document Type: Article

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