Waist circumference in children and adolescents correlate with metabolic syndrome and fat deposits in young adults

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-97

  Spolidoro, Jose Vicente ^a   Pitrez Filho, Manoel L ^a   Vargas, Luiz T ^a   Santana, João C ^a   Pitrez, Eduardo ^b   Hauschild, Jorge A ^a   Bruscato, Neide M ^c   Moriguchi, Emilio H ^d   Medeiros, Augusto K ^a   Piva, Jefferson P ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c Veranópolis Longevity Project   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat; Adolescent; Child; Obesity; Pediatrics; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84872614442     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2012.05.020     Document Type: Article

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