Serum nitric oxide metabolite as a biomarker of visceral fat accumulation: Clinical significance of measurement for nitrate/nitrite

BACKGROUND: A visceral fat area of more than 100 cm(2) as measured by computed tomography (CT) at the umbilical level has been included as a criterion for obesity in all the proposed criteria for metabolic syndrome. However, CT cannot be used frequently because of radiation exposure. We evaluated th...

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Main Authors: Fujita, Koji, Wada, Koichiro, Nozaki, Yuichi, Yoneda, Masato, Endo, Hiroki, Takahashi, Hirokazu, Kirikoshi, Hiroyuki, Inamori, Masahiko, Kobayashi, Noritoshi, Kubota, Kensuke, Saito, Satoru, Nakajima, Atsushi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2011
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Clinical Research
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3524723/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21358598
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.881445
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