Better measures of fat mass - beyond BMI

Clinical Obesity

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 65-65

  Finer, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIPID;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; FAT MASS; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84877038206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17588111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-8111.2012.00047.x     Document Type: Editorial

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