A proposed method for the evaluation of body fat in Japanese adults that predicts obesity

Nutrition Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-121

  Minematsu, Kazuo ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^b   Goto, Kensuke ^b   Honda, Sumihisa ^b   Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^b   Moji, Kazuhiko ^c   Tsunawake, Noriaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAGASAKI   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal circumference; Body mass index; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Percentage of body fat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; UNDERWATER WEIGHING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952633049     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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