Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric estimates of visceral fat in black and white South African women

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 619-624

  Micklesfield, Lisa K ^a,b   Evans, Juliet ^a   Norris, Shane A ^b   Lambert, Estelle V ^a   Jennings, Courtney ^a   Joffe, Yael ^a   Levitt, Naomi S ^a   Goedecke, Julia H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; OBESITY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; SOUTH AFRICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; SOUTH AFRICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249163625     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.292     Document Type: Article

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