Effect of body mass index and intra-abdominal fat measured by computed tomography on the risk of bowel symptoms.

Effect of body mass index and intra-abdominal fat measured by computed tomography on the risk of bowel symptoms.

This study aims to investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) or intra-abdominal fat measured by computed tomography (CT) and bowel symptoms.A cohort of 958 Japanese adults who underwent colonoscopy and CT and completed questionnaires after excluding colorectal diseases was analyzed....

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Main Authors: Naoyoshi Nagata, Kayo Sakamoto, Tomohiro Arai, Ryota Niikura, Takuro Shimbo, Masafumi Shinozaki, Noriko Ihana, Katsunori Sekine, Hidetaka Okubo, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Chizu Yokoi, Mikio Yanase, Junichi Akiyama, Naomi Uemura, Mitsuhiko Noda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4408111?pdf=render

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