This chapter is a review of the effects of excessive, formerly known as morbid, obesity on circulating levels and gene expression of adipokines and related factors in the visceral omental adipose tissue of women undergoing bariatric surgery. The current paradigm is that most of the deleterious metabolic effects of excessive obesity are due to Type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension secondary to the...

background: to evaluate the association of apolipoprotein b (apob), apolipoprotein a (apoa), and apob/apoa ratio with the body fat indicators in patients with stable angina pectoris (sa). materials and methods: one hundred and twenty two participants aged 40-60 years old, with a mean age of 52.1 ± 7.2 years and sa, were recruited for the present study. body weight, height, and waist circumferen...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of prehypertension has increased in China, and prehypertension frequently progress to hypertension over a short time period; both have become public health problems. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between the Visceral Adiposity Index (VAI) and blood pressure (BP) in China. METHODS A cross-sectional epidemiological survey was conduct...

BACKGROUND There is a well established link between obesity and cancer. Emerging research is characterising this relationship further and delineating the specific role of excess visceral adiposity, as opposed to simple obesity, in promoting tumorigenesis. This review summarises the evidence from an epidemiological and pathophysiological perspective. METHODS Relevant medical literature was ide...

BACKGROUND Visceral adiposity is generally considered to play a key role in the metabolic syndrome, including hypertension. The purpose of this study was to evaluate cross-sectionally whether visceral adiposity is associated with prevalence of hypertension independent of other adipose depots and fasting plasma insulin. METHODS AND RESULTS Study subjects included 563 Japanese Americans with no...

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the associations between accelerometer-measured physical activity and both cardiometabolic disease risk factors metabolic syndrome in Korean adults. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort with age-sex matched case-control using data from 2014-2016 Korea National Health Nutrition Examination Survey, which was administered South adults (n=320). Individuals...

Low circulating adiponectin levels may contribute to higher diabetes risk among Mexican Americans (MA) compared to non-Latino whites (NLW). Our objective was to determine if among young healthy adult MAs have lower adiponectin than NLWs, independent of differences in adiposity. In addition, we explored associations between adiponectin and diet. This was an observational, cross-sectional study o...

Background: The aim of this study is to estimate the relationship between the new anthropometric parameters [waist circumference to height ratio (WHtR), body adiposity index (BAI) and visceral adiposity index (VAI)] and some inflammatory markers (hsCRP, fibrinogen and TNF-alpha). Methods: Randomly selected 182 healthy adult men included to this study. Height, body weight (BW), waist circumferen...

Unlike most chronic illnesses which have been declining or stabilizing in prevalence, incidence of type 2 diabetes has been increasing in the Western Hemisphere, and is now increasing at alarming rates in Asia1. While all causes of these increases cannot be identified, without question the increase in adiposity is an important contributor. The latter is due to increased caloric intake and reduc...