Association of body-shape phenotypes with imaging measures of body composition in the UK Biobank cohort: relevance to colon cancer risk.

Sofia ChristakoudiKonstantinos K TsilidisEvangelos EvangelouElio Riboli

Published in: BMC cancer (2021)

ABSI-by-HI body-shape phenotypes provide information for body composition. Colon cancer risk in men appears related to ASAT quantity for "slim" and "wide" but to factors determining VAT accumulation for "apple" phenotype.

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