Clinical usefulness of a new equation for estimating body fat

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-388

  Gómez Ambrosi, Javier ^a,b   Silva, Camilo ^a,b   Catalán, Victoria ^a,b   Rodríguez, Amaia ^a,b   Galofré, Juan Carlos ^a   Escalada, Javier ^a,b   Valentí, Victor ^b   Rotellar, Fernando ^b   Romero, Sonia ^a,b   Ramírez, Beatriz ^a,b   Salvador, Javier ^a,b   Frühbeck, Gema ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR DISPLACEMENT PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK FACTOR; CLINICA UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA BODY ADIPOSITY ESTIMATOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859060682     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-1334     Document Type: Article

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