Similarity in Percent Body Fat between White and Vietnamese Women: Implication for a Universal Definition of Obesity

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1242-1246

  Ho Pham, Lan T ^a   Lai, Thai Q ^a   Nguyen, Nguyen D ^b   Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^c   Nguyen, Tuan V ^b,d  

^a PHAM NGOC THACH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Viet Nam)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; OBESITY; PERCENT BODY FAT; RACE DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VIETNAMESE; ASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; VIETNAM;

EID: 77952950931     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.19     Document Type: Article

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