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Ultrasound measurements of visceral and subcutaneous abdominal thickness to predict abdominal adiposity among older men and women

De Lucia Rolfe E, Sleigh A, Finucane FM, Brage S, Stolk RP, Cooper C, Sharp SJ, Wareham NJ, Ong KK. Ultrasound measurements of visceral and subcutaneous abdominal thickness to predict abdominal adiposity among older men and women. Obesity (Silver Spring). March 2010;18(3):625-631.

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Publication Date
March 2010

How Analyze was Used
“To gain some insight into the precision and validity of the US measures, visceral and subcutaneous thicknesses were also determined on the MRI image, using the MRI imaging software Analyze 7.0.”

Keywords
Adiposity
Aged
Anthropometry
Body Height
Body Weight
Female
Hip
Humans
Intra-Abdominal Fat/pathology/ultrasonography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/methods
Male
Obesity, Abdominal/pathology/ultrasonography
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results
Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal/pathology/ultrasonography
Waist Circumference

Author Affiliation(s)
MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. (EDLR, FMF, SB, SJS, NJW, KKO)

Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands. (EDLR, RPS)

Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. (AS)

MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK. (CC)

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