Abdominal obesity and mortality: The pennington center longitudinal study

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 2, Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Katzmarzyk, P T ^a   Mire, E ^a   Bouchard, C ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort; Mortality; Subcutaneous fat; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LEISURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

EID: 84880518197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2012.15     Document Type: Article

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