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Comparative assessment of methods for determining adiposity and a model for obesity index

2019-07-22

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<h4>Background</h4> Obesity is increasingly becoming a pandemic considering the many risks it pose to other disease conditions. Obesity is largely a measure of adiposity, however, adiposity is not centralized in the human body. This makes it difficult for any single method to adequately represent obesity and by extension the risks specific areas of adipose accumulation pose to specific disease conditions. <h4>Sub...

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DOI: 10.1101/710970

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