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The application of visceral adiposity index in identifying type 2 diabetes risks based on a prospective cohort in China

BACKGROUND: Visceral adiposity index (VAI), a novel sex-specific index for visceral fat measurement, has been proposed recently. We evaluate the efficacy of VAI in identifying diabetes risk in Chinese people, and compare the predictive ability between VAI and other body fatness indices, i.e., waist...

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Autores principales: Chen, Chen, Xu, Yan, Guo, Zhi-rong, Yang, Jie, Wu, Ming, Hu, Xiao-shu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25002013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-13-108