S Klein, DB Allison, SB Heymsfield, DE Kelley … - American Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Nutrition Obesity is an important risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes,
hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary heart disease (CHD). Several leading national and
international institutions, including the World Health Organization and the National ... Cited by 97 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 15 versions
KM Pou, JM Massaro, U Hoffmann, RS Vasan, P … - Circulation, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham,
Mass (JM Massaro, RSV, MGL, JM Murabito, CJD, EJB, CSF); Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Diabetes, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - All 6 versions
N Stefan, K Kantartzis, J Machann, F Schick, C … - Archives of Internal …, 2008 - Am Med Assoc Methods In 314 subjects, we measured total body, visceral, and subcutaneous fat with magnetic
resonance (MR) tomography and fat in the liver and skeletal muscle with proton MR
spectroscopy. Insulin sensitivity was estimated from oral glucose tolerance test results. ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 5 versions
W Shen, M Punyanitya, J Chen, D Gallagher, J … - International Journal of …, 2006 - nature.com Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is widely recognized as conveying the highest health risk in humans
among the currently measurable adipose tissue compartments. A recent study indicated that
the traditionally measured VAT area at L 4 –L 5 is not the VAT area with the highest ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
EW Demerath, SS Sun, N Rogers, M Lee, D Reed, AC … - Obesity, 2007 - nature.com Research Methods and Procedures: Contiguous 1-cm-thick magnetic resonance (MR) images
of the abdomen were collected from 820 African-American and white adults. Repeated-measures
ANOVA was used to examine the effects of image location, sex, race, and age ( 50 vs. ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - All 2 versions
EW Demerath, W Shen, M Lee, AC Choh, SA … - American Journal of …, 2007 - ajcn.cnfindpark.cn Background: A single axial image measured between the 4th and 5th lumbar vertebrae
(L4-L5) is most frequently chosen to approximate total abdominal visceral adipose tissue
(VAT) volume, but growing evidence suggests that this measurement site is not ideal. Cited by 8 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
J Kullberg, H Ahlström, L Johansson, H … - International Journal of …, 2007 - nature.com (1) To develop a fully automated algorithm for segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT)
and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), excluding intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) and
bone marrow (BM), from axial abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. (2) To ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
S Bonekamp, P Ghosh, S Crawford, SF Solga, A … - International Journal of …, 2007 - nature.com To examine five available software packages for the assessment of abdominal adipose tissue
with magnetic resonance imaging, compare their features and assess the reliability of measurement
results. ... Feature evaluation and test–retest reliability of softwares (NIHImage, ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►ajcn.org EW Demerath, D Reed, N Rogers, SS Sun, M … - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Nutrition Design: This study included 713 non-Hispanic whites aged 18–86 y, in whom VAT and ASAT
were assessed by using multiple-image magnetic resonance imaging. The anatomical position
of the magnetic resonance image containing the maximum VAT area for each subject was ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 4 versions
KJ Ellis, B Grund, F Visnegarwala, L Thackeray, CG … - Obesity, 2007 - nature.com * The costs of publication of this article were defrayed, in part, by the payment of page
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