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Less Waste on Waist Measurements: Determination of Optimal Waist Circumference Measurement Site to Predict Visceral Adipose Tissue in Postmenopausal Women with Obesity

With obesity being a leading cause of preventable death, it is vital to understand how best to identify individuals with greater risk of metabolic disease, especially those with high visceral adipose tissue (VAT). This study aimed to determine whether three commonly used waist circumference (WC) mea...

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Autores principales: Seimon, Radhika V., Wild-Taylor, Anthony L., Gibson, Alice A., Harper, Claudia, McClintock, Sally, Fernando, Hamish A., Hsu, Michelle S. H., da Luz, Felipe Q., Keating, Shelley E., Johnson, Nathan A., Grieve, Stuart M., Markovic, Tania P., Caterson, Ian D., Byrne, Nuala M., Sainsbury, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29461494
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10020239