Dual-energy X-ray performs as well as clinical computed tomography for the measurement of visceral fat

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1109-1114

  Micklesfield, Lisa K ^a,b   Goedecke, Julia H ^a,c   Punyanitya, Mark ^d   Wilson, Kevin E ^e   Kelly, Thomas L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SOUTH AFRICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860296968     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.367     Document Type: Article

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