Measures of body fat in South Asian adults

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Kalra, S ^a,b   Mercuri, M ^a,b   Anand, S S ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BOD POD; Body adiposity index; Body fat; South Asian; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 84880551418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2013.10     Document Type: Article

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