Ethnic influences on the relations between abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adiposity, liver fat, and cardiometabolic risk profile: The international study of prediction of intra-abdominal adiposity and its relationship with cardiometabolic risk/intra-abdominal adiposity

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 714-726

  Nazare, Julie Anne ^a   Smith, Jessica D ^a   Borel, Anne Laure ^a   Haffner, Steven M ^b   Balkau, Beverley ^c   Ross, Robert ^d   Massien, Christine ^e   Alméras, Natalie ^a   Després, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FAT CONTENT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICIAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 84866598896     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.035758     Document Type: Article

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