Trunk versus extremity adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in white and African American adults

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1415-1418

  Hu, Gang ^a   Bouchard, Claude ^a   Bray, George A ^a   Greenway, Frank L ^a   Johnson, William D ^a   Newton Jr , Robert L ^a   Ravussin, Eric ^a   Ryan, Donna H ^a   Katzmarzyk, Peter T ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXTREMITY OBESITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TRUNK OBESITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 80051963299     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-2019     Document Type: Article

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