Association between waist circumference and gray matter volume in 2344 individuals from two adult community-based samples

NeuroImage

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-157

  Janowitz, Deborah ^a   Wittfeld, Katharina ^b   Terock, Jan ^a   Freyberger, Harald Jürgen ^a   Hegenscheid, Katrin ^a   Völzke, Henry ^a   Habes, Mohamad ^a,c   Hosten, Norbert ^a   Friedrich, Nele ^a   Nauck, Matthias ^a   Domanska, Grazyna ^a   Grabe, Hans Jörgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; GYRUS RECTUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBTHALAMUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGE; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84939625730     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.086     Document Type: Article

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