Findings from epidemiological studies over the past 30 years have shown that visceral
adipose tissue, accurately measured by CT or MRI, is an independent risk marker of …

An increase in fat mass is considered to be an important risk factor for the worldwide
increase in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, for a given fat mass, there …

Abstract Purpose of Review Despite its prevalence and well-documented impact on
population health, obesity has not emerged as a strong independent risk factor for …

Obesity increases the risk of several other chronic diseases and, because of its epidemic
proportions, has become a major public health problem worldwide. Alarmingly, a lower …

The prevalence of obesity has increased globally over the last 2 decades. Although the body
mass index has been a convenient and simple index of obesity at the population level …

Diabet. Med. 29, 622–627 (2012) Abstract Objective Previous studies have highlighted the
associations between abdominal, cardiac or total fat accumulation and cardiovascular …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether ectopic fat depots are
prospectively associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality …

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate differential effects of visceral fat (VF) and
subcutaneous fat and their effects on metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk across body mass …

Obesity is increasingly recognized as a heterogeneous condition with variable
cardiovascular risk in the setting of similar levels of body mass index. Ectopic fat depots may …

There is currently substantial confusion between the conceptual definition of the metabolic
syndrome and the clinical screening parameters and cut-off values proposed by various …