Skinfolds and coronary heart disease risk factors are more strongly associated with BMI than with the body adiposity index

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages E64-E70

  Freedman, David S ^a   Ogden, Cynthia L ^b   Goodman, Alyson B ^a   Blanck, Heidi M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY ADIPOSITY INDEX; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84876213561     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20054     Document Type: Article

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