Relationships between the distribution of abdominal adipose tissue and the components of metabolic syndrome
- VernacularTitle:腹部脂肪分布与代谢综合征组分关系的研究
- Author:
Jing CHEN
;
Zhiqiang TIAN
;
Zhidan LUO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
metabolic syndrome;
visceral adipose tissue;
abdominal obesity
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
2001;0(08):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the relationship between the distribution of abdominal adipose tissue and metabolic abnormality in the patients with metabolic syndrome (MS). Methods 108 patients (MS 70 cases, essential hypertension (EH) 22 cases and type Ⅱ diabetes mellitus (T2DM) 16 cases) were enrolled in this study. The visceral adipose (VA) and subcutaneous adipose (SA) were measured with computerized tomography (CT), the ratio of VA/SA was calculated and the correlation between them was analyzed. Results (1) The VA value in MS group was significantly higher compared to both T2DM and EH groups (P
