Waist Circumference, BMI, and Visceral Adipose Tissue in White Women and Women of African Descent
Open Access
- 1 March 2011
- Vol. 19 (3), 671-674
- https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2010.201
Abstract
Although waist circumference (WC) is a marker of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), WC cut‐points are based on BMI category. We compared WC‐BMI and WC‐VAT relationships in blacks and whites. Combining da...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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