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Greater Abdominal Fat Accumulation Is Associated with Higher Metabolic Risk in Chinese than in White People: An Ethnicity Study

INTRODUCTION: Chinese are reported to have a higher percent body fat (%BF) and a higher percent trunk fat (%TF) than whites for a given body mass index (BMI). However, the associations of these ethnic differences in body composition with metabolic risks remain unknown. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: A tota...

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Autores principales: He, Wei, Zhang, Sha, Song, Aihua, Yang, Min, Jiao, Jingjing, Allison, David B., Heymsfield, Steven B., Zhu, Shankuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3597722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23516538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058688