Imaging methods for analyzing body composition in human obesity and cardiometabolic disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1353, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-59

  Seabolt, Lynn A ^a   Welch, E Brian ^a   Silver, Heidi J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; CT; Diabetes; DXA; Imaging; MRI; MRS; Obesity

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAT MASS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SARCOPENIA; SARCOPENIC OBESITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945454216     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12842     Document Type: Article

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