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KMID : 0895820110210040167
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Journal of Oriental Rehabilitation Medicine
2011 Volume.21 No. 4 p.167 ~ p.179
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The Association Between Visceral Fat Area and Obesity Index
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Lim Je-Yeon
Song Yun-Kyung
Lim Hyung-Ho
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Abstract
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Objectives: In this study, we used both visceral fat area(VFA)/subcutaneous fat area(SFA) ratio(V/S ratio) and bioelectrical impedence analysis(BIA) for a comparative study between VFA measured from several abdominal computed tomography(CT) images and obesity indexes, such as body mass index(BMI), waist circumference(WC), and waist-hip ratio(WHR).
Methods: A group of 63 test subjects were gathered in the oriental medical hospital of Kyung-Won university. BIA for body composition and body size for obesity indexes were estimated to evaluate the obesity indexes. Pearson correlation coefficients and regression analysis were used to select useful obesity index.
Results: The VFA-CT was significantly related to BMI, SFA, WC, hip circumference(HC), body fat mass(BFM), basal metabolic rate(BMR), and VFA-BIA. Especially, we found that the VFA-BIA and BMI were significantly correlated to VFA-CT.
Conclusions: VFA-BIA index is an optimized index for diagnosis and evaluation of obesity. Finally, we found that the BMI is optimized to represent VFA.
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KEYWORD
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Obesity, Obesity index, Waist circumference, Body mass index, Visceral fat area
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