Obesity is associated with reduced white matter integrity in otherwise healthy adults

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 500-504

  Stanek, Kelly M ^a   Grieve, Stuart M ^b,c,d   Brickman, Adam M ^e   Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^b   Paul, Robert H ^f   Cohen, Ronald A ^g   Gunstad, John J ^a,h  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Brain Resource International Database   (Australia)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN FORNIX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM BODY; CORPUS CALLOSUM GENU; CORPUS CALLOSUM SPLENIUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952006211     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.312     Document Type: Article

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