Impact of age on the relationships of brown adipose tissue with sex and adiposity in humans

Diabetes

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1789-1793

  Pfannenberg, Christina ^a   Werner, Matthias K ^a   Ripkens, Sabine ^a   Stef, Irina ^a   Deckert, Annette ^a   Schmadl, Maria ^a   Reimold, Matthias ^a   Häring, Hans Ulrich ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Stefan, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77954303930     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db10-0004     Document Type: Article

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