Estimation of CT-Derived Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Depots from Anthropometry in Europeans, South Asians and African Caribbeans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Eastwood, Sophie V ^a   Tillin, Therese ^a   Wright, Andrew ^b   Heasman, John ^b   Willis, Joseph ^a   Godsland, Ian F ^c   Forouhi, Nita ^d   Whincup, Peter ^e   Hughes, Alun D ^a   Chaturvedi, Nishi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIA; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH CIRCUMFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884219694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075085     Document Type: Article

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