Dietary determinants of changes in waist circumference adjusted for body mass index - a proxy measure of visceral adiposity.

Dietary determinants of changes in waist circumference adjusted for body mass index - a proxy measure of visceral adiposity.

Given the recognized health effects of visceral fat, the understanding of how diet can modulate changes in the phenotype "waist circumference for a given body mass index (WC(BMI))", a proxy measure of visceral adiposity, is deemed necessary. Hence, the objective of the present study was to...

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Main Authors: Dora Romaguera, Lars Angquist, Huaidong Du, Marianne Uhre Jakobsen, Nita G Forouhi, Jytte Halkjaer, Edith J M Feskens, Daphne L van der A, Giovanna Masala, Annika Steffen, Domenico Palli, Nicholas J Wareham, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjønneland, Heiner Boeing, Elio Riboli, Thorkild I A Sørensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2904387?pdf=render

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