Is Visceral Adiposity the “Enemy Within”?

The enemy within

When scientists start grumbling — and we do grumble a lot — much breath gets spent on how competitive science has become. Some of this is plainly nostalgia for a non-existent time when science was pure, everyone was funded, and there was plenty of time to dabble or to think. Even allowing for nostalgia, though, it does seem that the pressure of competition is growing yearly. Scientists spend mo...

The enemy within.

Visceral adiposity syndrome

The association of anthropometric (waist circumference) and hemodynamic (blood pressure) changes with abnormalities in glucose and lipid metabolism has been motivation for a lot of discussions in the last 30 years. Nowadays, blood pressure, body mass index/abdominal circumference, glycemia, triglyceridemia, and HDL-cholesterol concentrations are considered in the definition of Metabolic syndrom...

Visceral Adiposity Index

OBJECTIVE To individuate a novel sex-specific index, based on waist circumference, BMI, triglycerides, and HDL cholesterol, indirectly expressing visceral fat function. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Visceral adiposity index (VAI) was first modeled on 315 nonobese healthy subjects. Using two multiple logistic regression models, VAI was retrospectively validated in 1,498 primary care patients in ...

Point: visceral adiposity is causally related to insulin resistance.

Related to Insulin Resistance The relationship between obesity and insulin resistance, while well recognized for many years, has nonetheless been confusing since not all obese individuals have insulin resistance (1) and because insulin resistance occurs in individuals who have BMIs that are within the normal or mildly overweight categories (2). Early attempts to understand the relationships bet...