Racial differences in measures of obesity and risk of colon adenoma

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 673-677

  Thompson, Cheryl L ^a,b   Berger, Nathan A ^a,b   Chak, Amitabh ^a,b   Li, Li ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLON ADENOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84857687992     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.295     Document Type: Article

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