Clinical utility of visceral adipose tissue for the identification of cardiometabolic risk in white and African American adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) has been identified as a harmful fat depot, and sex and race differences in VAT have been reported in white and African Americans.

Objectives

We determined the clinical utility of VAT in the identification of individuals at elevated cardiometabolic risk in white and African American adults and compared the clinical utility with measures obtained by using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and anthropometric measures.

Design

The sample included 429 white women, 311 African American women, 406 white men, and 100 African American men who were 18-74 y of age. VAT was measured by using computed tomography, fat mass (FM) and percentage of body fat were measured by using DXA, and waist circumference (WC) and BMI were assessed. Rec

SUBMITTER: Katzmarzyk PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3578400 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature