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Clinical utility of visceral adipose tissue for the identification of cardiometabolic risk in white and African American adults

Katzmarzyk PT, Heymsfield SB, Bouchard C. Clinical utility of visceral adipose tissue for the identification of cardiometabolic risk in white and African American adults. Am J Clin Nutr. March 2013;97(3):480-486.

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Publication Date
March 2013

How Analyze was Used
“Commercially available software (Analyze; AnalyzeDirect) was used to electronically measure areas of adipose tissue by selecting regions of interest defined by using attenuation values (−30 to −190 Hounsfield units for adipose tissue).”

Keywords
Absorptiometry, Photon
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans/statistics & numerical data
Aged
Anthropometry
Blood Glucose
Blood Pressure
Cardiovascular Diseases/ethnology/radiography
Cholesterol/blood
European Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Intra-Abdominal Fat/pathology/radiography
Logistic Models
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Metabolic Syndrome X/ethnology/radiography
Middle Aged
Obesity/ethnology/radiography
Risk Factors
Sex Factors
Triglycerides/blood
Waist Circumference
Young Adult

Author Affiliation(s)
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, US.

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