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Comparison of Bioelectrical Impedance and BMI in Predicting Obesity-Related Medical Conditions

  1. Kamali Willett1,
  2. Rui Jiang4,
  3. Elizabeth Lenart1,
  4. Donna Spiegelman2,
  5. Walter Willett1,2,3,*

Article first published online: 6 SEP 2012

DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.63

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Obesity

Obesity

Volume 14, Issue 3, pages 480–490, March 2006

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Willett, K., Jiang, R., Lenart, E., Spiegelman, D. and Willett, W. (2006), Comparison of Bioelectrical Impedance and BMI in Predicting Obesity-Related Medical Conditions. Obesity, 14: 480–490. doi: 10.1038/oby.2006.63

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  1. 1

    Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

  2. 2

    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

  3. 3

    Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

  4. 4

    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York.

* Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: elenart@hsph.harvard.edu

  1. See † for list of study centers.

  2. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed, in part, by the payment of page charges. This article must, therefore, be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 6 SEP 2012
  2. Article first published online: 6 SEP 2012
  3. Received for review April 26, 2005; Accepted in final form December 20, 2005

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