Association of body-shape phenotypes with imaging measures of body composition in the UK Biobank cohort: relevance to colon cancer risk

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI), waist and hip circumference are strongly correlated and do not reflect body composition. A Body Shape Index (ABSI) and Hip Index (HI) define waist and hip size among individuals with the same weight and height and would thus reflect body density. We examined differ...

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Autores principales: Christakoudi, Sofia, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K., Evangelou, Evangelos, Riboli, Elio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8518225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34654381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08820-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8518225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34654381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08820-6

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