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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
30000 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2009-05-31
2050-02-28
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* volunteer to Participate
Exclusion Criteria
* Pregnant
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Pennington Biomedical Research Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Princiapal Investigator
Principal Investigators
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Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Associate Executive director for Population Science
Locations
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Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Countries
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Central Contacts
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References
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Camhi SM, Katzmarzyk PT. Differences in body composition between metabolically healthy obese and metabolically abnormal obese adults. Int J Obes (Lond). 2014 Aug;38(8):1142-5. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.208. Epub 2013 Nov 12.
Katzmarzyk PT, Greenway FL, Heymsfield SB, Bouchard C. Clinical utility and reproducibility of visceral adipose tissue measurements derived from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in White and African American adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Nov;21(11):2221-4. doi: 10.1002/oby.20519. Epub 2013 Aug 13.
Katzmarzyk PT, Mire E, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Heymsfield SB, Bouchard C. Anthropometric markers of obesity and mortality in white and African American adults: the pennington center longitudinal study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 May;21(5):1070-5. doi: 10.1002/oby.20151.
Katzmarzyk PT, Hu G, Cefalu WT, Mire E, Bouchard C. The importance of waist circumference and BMI for mortality risk in diabetic adults. Diabetes Care. 2013 Oct;36(10):3128-30. doi: 10.2337/dc13-0219. Epub 2013 Jun 11.
Katzmarzyk PT, Heymsfield SB, Bouchard C. Clinical utility of visceral adipose tissue for the identification of cardiometabolic risk in white and African American adults. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Mar;97(3):480-6. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.047787. Epub 2013 Jan 30.
Katzmarzyk PT, Mire E, Bouchard C. Abdominal obesity and mortality: The Pennington Center Longitudinal Study. Nutr Diabetes. 2012 Aug 27;2(8):e42. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2012.15.
Camhi SM, Katzmarzyk PT. Total and femoral neck bone mineral density and physical activity in a sample of men and women. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2012 Oct;37(5):947-54. doi: 10.1139/h2012-075. Epub 2012 Jul 23.
Barreira TV, Staiano AE, Harrington DM, Heymsfield SB, Smith SR, Bouchard C, Katzmarzyk PT. Anthropometric correlates of total body fat, abdominal adiposity, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a biracial sample of men and women. Mayo Clin Proc. 2012 May;87(5):452-60. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2011.12.017.
Barreira TV, Harrington DM, Staiano AE, Heymsfield SB, Katzmarzyk PT. Body adiposity index, body mass index, and body fat in white and black adults. JAMA. 2011 Aug 24;306(8):828-30. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1189. No abstract available.
Katzmarzyk PT, Barreira TV, Harrington DM, Staiano AE, Heymsfield SB, Gimble JM. Relationship between abdominal fat and bone mineral density in white and African American adults. Bone. 2012 Feb;50(2):576-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2011.04.012. Epub 2011 Apr 28.
Hu G, Bouchard C, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Johnson WD, Newton RL Jr, Ravussin E, Ryan DH, Katzmarzyk PT. Trunk versus extremity adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in white and African American adults. Diabetes Care. 2011 Jun;34(6):1415-8. doi: 10.2337/dc10-2019. Epub 2011 Apr 19.
Katzmarzyk PT, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Johnson WD, Newton RL Jr, Ravussin E, Ryan DH, Bouchard C. Ethnic-specific BMI and waist circumference thresholds. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Jun;19(6):1272-8. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.319. Epub 2011 Jan 6.
Newton RL Jr, Bouchard C, Bray G, Greenway F, Johnson WD, Ravussin E, Ryan D, Katzmarzyk PT. Abdominal adiposity depots are correlates of adverse cardiometabolic risk factors in Caucasian and African-American adults. Nutr Diabetes. 2011 Jan 31;1(1):e2. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2010.2.
Broyles ST, Bouchard C, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Johnson WD, Newton RL, Ravussin E, Ryan DH, Smith SR, Katzmarzyk PT. Consistency of fat mass--fat-free mass relationship across ethnicity and sex groups. Br J Nutr. 2011 Apr;105(8):1272-6. doi: 10.1017/S0007114510004794. Epub 2010 Dec 14.
Sullivan R, Johnson WD, Katzmarzyk PT. Waist circumference is an independent correlate of errors in self-reported BMI. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Nov;18(11):2237-9. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.178. Epub 2010 Aug 19.
Katzmarzyk PT, Bray GA, Greenway FL, Johnson WD, Newton RL Jr, Ravussin E, Ryan DH, Smith SR, Bouchard C. Racial differences in abdominal depot-specific adiposity in white and African American adults. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jan;91(1):7-15. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28136. Epub 2009 Oct 14.
Johnson WD, Bouchard C, Newton RL Jr, Ryan DH, Katzmarzyk PT. Ethnic differences in self-reported and measured obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Mar;17(3):571-7. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.582. Epub 2008 Dec 18.
Camhi SM, Bray GA, Bouchard C, Greenway FL, Johnson WD, Newton RL, Ravussin E, Ryan DH, Smith SR, Katzmarzyk PT. The relationship of waist circumference and BMI to visceral, subcutaneous, and total body fat: sex and race differences. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Feb;19(2):402-8. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.248. Epub 2010 Oct 14.
Staiano AE, Bouchard C, Katzmarzyk PT. BMI-specific waist circumference thresholds to discriminate elevated cardiometabolic risk in White and African American adults. Obes Facts. 2013;6(4):317-24. doi: 10.1159/000354712. Epub 2013 Aug 9.
Sung YJ, Perusse L, Sarzynski MA, Fornage M, Sidney S, Sternfeld B, Rice T, Terry JG, Jacobs DR Jr, Katzmarzyk P, Curran JE, Jeffrey Carr J, Blangero J, Ghosh S, Despres JP, Rankinen T, Rao DC, Bouchard C. Genome-wide association studies suggest sex-specific loci associated with abdominal and visceral fat. Int J Obes (Lond). 2016 Apr;40(4):662-74. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.217. Epub 2015 Oct 20.
Katzmarzyk PT, Brown JC, Yang S, Mire EF, Wu XC, Miele L, Ochoa AC, Zabaleta J. Association of Abdominal Visceral Adiposity and Total Fat Mass with Cancer Incidence and Mortality in White and Black Adults. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Aug 2;31(8):1532-1538. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0207.
Brown JC, Yang S, Mire EF, Wu X, Miele L, Ochoa A, Zabaleta J, Katzmarzyk PT. Obesity and cancer death in white and black adults: A prospective cohort study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Dec;29(12):2119-2125. doi: 10.1002/oby.23290. Epub 2021 Oct 24.
Brown JC, Yang S, Mire EF, Wu X, Miele L, Ochoa A, Zabaleta J, Katzmarzyk PT. Obesity and Cancer Risk in White and Black Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Jun;29(6):960-965. doi: 10.1002/oby.23163.
Other Identifiers
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PBRC 28027
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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