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Associations of Body Mass and Fat Indexes With Cardiometabolic Traits

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) is criticized for not distinguishing fat from lean mass and ignoring fat distribution, leaving its ability to detect health effects unclear. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare BMI with total and regional fat indexes from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometr...

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Autores principales: Bell, Joshua A., Carslake, David, O’Keeffe, Linda M., Frysz, Monika, Howe, Laura D., Hamer, Mark, Wade, Kaitlin H., Timpson, Nicholas J., Davey Smith, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Biomedical 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30545453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.066