Is percentage body fat differentially related to body mass index in Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and European Americans?
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Is percentage body fat differentially related to body mass index in Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and European Americans?
BACKGROUND Limited research has been done to explore differences between ethnic groups, including Hispanic Americans (HAs), in the association between percentage body fat (PBF) and body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)); the numbers of HAs are increasing in the US population. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether the relation between PBF and BMI in adult HAs differed from that of African Americans (AA...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/77.1.71