MeSH Review:
Intra-Abdominal Fat
Pasquali,
Gambineri,
Biscotti,
Vicennati,
Gagliardi,
Colitta,
Fiorini,
Cognigni,
Filicori,
Morselli-Labate,
Esposito,
Pontillo,
Ciotola,
Di Palo,
Grella,
Nicoletti,
Giugliano,
Franco,
Brandberg,
Lönn,
Andersson,
Bengtsson,
Johannsson,
Barzilai,
She,
Liu,
Vuguin,
Cohen,
Wang,
Rossetti,
Miller,
Jones,
Yanovski,
Shankar,
Feuerstein,
Falloon,
Gower,
Nagy,
Goran,
Schoen,
Weissfeld,
Kuller,
Thaete,
Evans,
Hayes,
Rosen,
Carr,
Utzschneider,
Hull,
Kodama,
Retzlaff,
Brunzell,
Shofer,
Fish,
Knopp,
Kahn,
Imbeault,
Prins,
Stolic,
Russell,
O'Moore-Sullivan,
Després,
Bouchard,
Tremblay,
Kanaya,
Wassel Fyr,
Vittinghoff,
Harris,
Park,
Goodpaster,
Tylavsky,
Cummings,
Simoneau,
Kelley,
Neverova,
Warden,
Després,
Couillard,
Gagnon,
Bergeron,
Leon,
Rao,
Skinner,
Wilmore,
Bouchard,
Goran,
Gower,
Stranges,
Dorn,
Muti,
Freudenheim,
Farinaro,
Russell,
Nochajski,
Trevisan,
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