Anthropometric measures of visceral and subcutaneous fat are important in the determination of metabolic dysregulation in boys and girls at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-111

  Mager, Diana R ^a   Yap, Jason ^a   Rodriguez Dimitrescu, Carla ^a   Mazurak, Vera ^a   Ball, Geoff ^a   Gilmour, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

body composition; child; fatty liver; nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; somatotypes

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN B100; APOLIPOPROTEIN B48; APOLIPOPROTEIN C3; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JUVENILE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOMATOTYPE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LEPTIN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84872388948     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533612454884     Document Type: Article

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