Association between birth weight and visceral fat in adults

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 347-352

  De Lucia Rolfe, Emanuella ^a   Loos, Ruth J F ^a   Druet, Céline ^a   Stolk, Ronald P ^b   Ekelund, Ulf ^a   Griffin, Simon J ^a   Forouhi, Nita G ^a   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a   Ong, Ken K ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 77955501246     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29247     Document Type: Article

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