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Clinical Utility and Reproducibility of Visceral Adipose Tissue Measurements Derived from Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry in White and African American Adults

Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are currently used to measure abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in humans; however, more widely available and less costly dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) also has the potential to measure VAT. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to...

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Autores principales: Katzmarzyk, Peter T., Greenway, Frank L., Heymsfield, Steven B., Bouchard, Claude
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23794256
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20519