A 360-degree overview of body composition in healthy people: Relationships among anthropometry, ultrasonography, and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry

Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 696-701

  Bazzocchi, Alberto ^a,b   Diano, Danila ^a   Ponti, Federico ^a   Salizzoni, Eugenio ^a   Albisinni, Ugo ^b   Marchesini, Giulio ^a   Battista, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorptiometry; Anthropometry; Body composition; Body fat distribution; Health; Photon; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT THICKNESS; ITALIAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899706100     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: 18731244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2013.11.013     Document Type: Article

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