Physical Activity and Reduced Intra-abdominal Fat in Midlife African-American and White Women

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1260-1265

  Dugan, Sheila A ^a   Everson Rose, Susan A ^a,b   Karavolos, Kelly ^a   Avery, Elizabeth F ^a   Wesley, Deidre E ^a   Powell, Lynda H ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXERCISE; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MENOPAUSE; PARITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RECREATION; SELF REPORT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; DOWN REGULATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 77952951960     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.396     Document Type: Article

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