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Shuman Yang, Department of Internal Medicine/Community Health Sciences Shuman Yang, Department of Internal Medicine/Community Health Sciences

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Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care Short Note Open Access Yang S 2015 Should we Use Various Obesity Measures Interchangeably J ID: 511092

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Should We Use Various Obesity Measures Interchangeably? Shuman Yang, Department of Internal Medicine/Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Chown Building, 354-1-753 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3E 0W3, Tel: 1-204-480-1371, measures such as body weight and body mass index (BMI) are commonly used to quantify obesity status of patients or research Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care Short Note: Open Access Yang S (2015) Should We Use Various Obesity Measures Interchangeably?. J © 2015 Yang S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of Page 2 of 2 measurements reveal a strong relationship in subjects at both low and high Larsson B, Svardsudd K, Welin L, Wilhelmsen L, Bjorntorp P, et al. (1984) Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born Kissebah AH, Peiris AN (1989) Biology of regional body fat distribution: relationship to non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Metab Rev Tu YK, Clerehugh V, Gilthorpe MS (2004) Ratio variables in regression analysis can give rise to spurious results: illustration from two studies in Gilthorpe MS, Tu YK (2004) Mathematical coupling: a multilevel approach. Int 11.Hsu YH, Venners SA, Terwedow HA, Feng Y, Niu T, et al. (2006) Relation of body composition, fat mass, and serum lipids to osteoporotic fractures and bone mineral density in Chinese men and women. Am J Clin Nutr 83: 146- Yang. J Nutri Med Diet Care 2015, 1:1