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KMID : 0928320060060030165
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Korean Journal of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
2006 Volume.6 No. 3 p.165 ~ p.172
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Association between body fat distribution and metabolic risk factors in women
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Choi Eun-Young
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Abstract
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Background: Metabolic syndrome is clusterings of coronary risk factors. Many studies indicate that body fat distribution especially visceral adipose tissue has an important role in development of metabolic syndrome. This study investigated association of metabolic risk factors and body fat distribution measured by CT in women.
Methods: From April 2001 to December 2005 we analyzed data of 57 women aged more than 19 years old who visited the obesity clinic of Dankook University Hospital and underwent abdominal fat CT, blood test, bioimpedence analysis and anthropometric measurement.
Results: Compared to the low visceral fat group, frequencies of metabolic risk factors except for high fasting glucose were increased in high visceral fat group. After adjusted for age and BMI, odds ratios for metabolic risk factors were increased more in high visceral fat group than in low visceral fat group, and odds ratio for high triglyceride(odds
ratio=7.3 95% CI: 1.2-45.3, P=0.033) had a statistical significance. Means of visceral fat area were significantly increased as
the number of metabolic risk factors increased.(Ptrend=0.000) Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that visceral fat was an independent variable predicting clusterings of metabolic risk factors. (β=0.013, P=0.000)
Conclusions: Visceral adipose tissue was associated with metabolic risk factors, and visceral adipose tissue was an independent predictor of clusterings of metabolic risk factors. (Korean J Health Promot Dis Prev 2006 ; 6(3) : 165~172)
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KEYWORD
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body fat distribution, metabolic syndrome, visceral adipose tissue, metabolic risk factor
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