High prevalence of abdominal, intra-abdominal and subcutaneous adiposity and clustering of risk factors among Urban Asian Indians in North India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Bhardwaj, Swati ^a,b   Misra, Anoop ^a,b,c   Misra, Ranjita ^d   Goel, Kashish ^a,b,e   Bhatt, Surya Prakash ^a,b,f   Rastogi, Kavita ^b   Vikram, Naval K ^f   Gulati, Seema ^a,b  

^a Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation N DOC   (India)

^b Diabetes Foundation India New Delhi   (India)

^c FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INDIA; INDIAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ASIAN; BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052924450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024362     Document Type: Article

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