Validation of ultrasound estimates of visceral fat in black South African adolescents

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1892-1897

  De Lucia Rolfe, Emanuella ^a,b   Norris, Shane A ^c,d   Sleigh, Alison ^d   Brage, Soren ^a   Dunger, David B ^d   Stolk, Ronald P ^b   Ong, Ken K ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF METABOLIC SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052181309     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.213     Document Type: Article

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