normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: nowadays obesity has become a universal problem. many studies have been done on obesity and abdominal adiposity. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between polyunsaturated fatty acid (pufa) intake, and obesity and abdominal adiposity in female students of isfahan university of medical scie...

OBJECTIVE Abdominal visceral adiposity is related to risks for insulin resistance and metabolic perturbations. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography are advanced instruments that quantify abdominal adiposity; yet field use is constrained by their bulkiness and costliness. The purpose of this study is to develop prediction equations for total abdominal, subcutaneous, and visce...

Excess fat in the abdomen can be classified generally as visceral and subcutaneous adiposity. Evidence suggests that visceral adiposity has greater implications for diabetes than other fat depots. The purpose of this study is to explore the disparities in the distribution of abdominal adiposity in diabetic/prediabetic and nondiabetic populations and to identify moderators that influence the pat...

We were very interested in the recent study by Kowalkowska et al. who analysed the relationship between assessments of general adiposity and assessments of abdominal high adiposity, and how it varies according to place of residence and individual and socio-economic factors. Their study is indeed very relevant because there is cumulative evidence that the prevalence of abdominal adiposity seems ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity is increasing, and there is evidence that obesity, in particular abdominal obesity as a marker of insulin resistance, is negatively associated with pulmonary function. The mechanism for this association and the best marker of abdominal adiposity in relation to pulmonary function is not known. STUDY OBJECTIVE We assessed the association between pulmonary fu...

OBJECTIVE To analyze associations between health-related physical fitness and the anthropometric and demographic indicators of children at three elementary schools in Botucatu, SP, Brazil. METHODS The sample for this cross-sectional study was 988 elementary school students, recruited from the second to ninth grades (an age range of 7 to 15 years). The children underwent anthropometric assessm...

Vascular smooth muscle responsiveness to nitric oxide, as assessed by nitroglycerin-induced dilation (NID), is impaired in clinical cardiovascular disease, but its relation to adiposity is unknown. We determined the relation of NID to total and abdominal adiposity in healthy adults varying widely in adiposity. In 224 men and women [age, 18-79 years; body mass index (BMI), 16.4-42.2 kg/m(2)], we...

BACKGROUND Metabolic profiling may provide insight into biologic mechanisms related to age-related increases in regional adiposity and insulin resistance. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the current study were to characterize the association between mid-thigh intermuscular and subcutaneous adipose tissue (IMAT, SCAT, respectively) and, abdominal adiposity with the serum metabolite profile, to id...

BACKGROUND Although previous research suggests a relationship between chronic low back pain (cLBP) and adiposity, this relationship is poorly understood. No research has explored the relationship between abdominal-specific subcutaneous and visceral adiposity with pain and disability in cLBP individuals. The aim of this study therefore was to examine the relationship of regional and total body a...

BACKGROUND As the case detection rate of arterial hypertension increases daily in rural Nigeria, screening for its associated abdominal obesity and dyslipidemia is an important healthcare challenge. Of great concern in rural Nigeria is that most geriatric hypertensives with abdominal obesity and dyslipidemia are not routinely diagnosed and therefore do not receive appropriate management. OBJE...