Waist circumference, BMI, and visceral adipose tissue in white women and women of African descent

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 671-674

  Sumner, Anne E ^a   Micklesfield, Lisa K ^b,c   Ricks, Madia ^a   Tambay, Anita V ^a   Avila, Nilo A ^d   Thomas, Francine ^e   Lambert, Estelle V ^b   Levitt, Naomi S ^b   Evans, Juliet ^b   Rotimi, Charles N ^f   Tulloch Reid, Marshall K ^g   Goedecke, Julia H ^b,h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^h SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; NEGRO; PREMENOPAUSE; RACE; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; REFERENCE VALUES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952003905     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.201     Document Type: Article

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