Asian women have greater abdominal and visceral adiposity than Caucasian women with similar body mass index

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lim, U ^a   Ernst, T ^b   Buchthal, S D ^b   Latch, M ^b   Albright, C L ^a   Wilkens, L R ^a   Kolonel, L N ^a   Murphy, S P ^a   Chang, L ^b   Novotny, R ^a   Le Marchand, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

body composition; central obesity; liver fat; race ethnicity; subcutaneous adipose tissue; visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST HIP RATIO; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84884211446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2011.2     Document Type: Article

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