Relationships between body roundness with body fat and visceral adipose tissue emerging from a new geometrical model

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2264-2271

  Thomas, Diana M ^a   Bredlau, Carl ^a   Bosy Westphal, Anja ^b   Mueller, Manfred ^b   Shen, Wei ^c   Gallagher, Dympna ^c   Maeda, Yuna ^a   McDougall, Andrew ^a   Peterson, Courtney M ^d   Ravussin, Eric ^d   Heymsfield, Steven B ^d  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY ROUNDNESS INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GEOMETRICAL INDEX; HEALTH STATUS; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; REGRESSION MODEL; SIMULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOMATOTYPE; YOUNG ADULT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOMATOTYPES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887206929     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20408     Document Type: Article

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