Do Anthropometric Indices Accurately Reflect Directly Measured Body Composition in Men and Women With Chronic Heart Failure?

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-91

  Oreopoulos, Antigone ^a   Fonarow, Gregg C ^b   Ezekowitz, Justin A ^a,c   Mcalister, Finlay A ^a,c   Sharma, Arya M ^a   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^d   Norris, Colleen M ^a,c   Johnson, Jeffery A ^a   Padwal, Raj S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAZANKOWSKI ALBERTA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79953182337     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2010.00204.x     Document Type: Article

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