Impact of Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: The Jackson Heart Study
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"Impact of Abdominal Visceral and Su..." refers methods in this paper
...Obesity was defined by a BMI of at least 30 kg/m(2), and modified NationalCholesterolEducationProgramAdultTreatmentPanel III criteria were used to define the metabolic syndrome (17)....
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...Women are generally characterized by a greater body fat content and preferential accumulation of adipose tissue in the gluteofemoral region, whereas men are prone to abdominal fat deposition, particularly in the abdominal cavity, a condition that has been described as visceral obesity (3, 6, 26)....
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...also be a health risk because it has been associated with cardiometabolic risk factors and insulin resistance (3, 4)....
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...and SAT with cardiometabolic risk (3, 14, 19, 20)....
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...metabolic risk factors after accounting for BMI (3, 18),...
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...In the Framingham Heart Study, larger volumes of SAT were associated with more adverse risk factor profiles (3), although increasing SAT was associated with lower triglyceride levels only when examined within narrow ranges of VAT (18)....
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...SAT may preferentially release more leptin and IL-6, whereas VAT may mainly release TNF- (28)....
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