Evaluation of Health Associations With Height-Normalised Abdominal Body Composition Indices: A Single-Centre Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional metrics such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) fail to accurately assess the health outcomes associated with abdominal adiposity, because they neglect the intricacies of adipose tissue distribution. Notably, the variability in body composition scaled to height remains underexplored in Chinese demographics. This study introduces height-normalised indices of abdominal adiposity using computed tomography (CT) scans and further assesses their associations with various health outcomes.

Methods

In a large, diverse Chinese population (n = 1054 healthy individuals; n = 1159 with dyslipidemia; n = 803 with diabetes; n = 1289 with cardio-cerebrovascular diseases; n = 1108 with cancers; and n = 509 with abnormal bone mas), abdominal CT scans w

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634505 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature