Ultrasound measurements of visceral and subcutaneous abdominal thickness to predict abdominal adiposity among older men and women

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 625-631

  De Lucia Rolfe, Ema ^a,b   Sleigh, Alison ^c   Finucane, Francis M ^a   Brage, Soren ^a   Stolk, Ronald P ^b   Cooper, Cyrus ^a   Sharp, Stephen J ^a   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a   Ong, Ken K ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77249102001     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.309     Document Type: Article

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