2014
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103499
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Evaluation of the Accuracy of Anthropometric Clinical Indicators of Visceral Fat in Adults and Elderly

Abstract: BackgroundVisceral obesity is associated with higher occurrence of cardiovascular events. There are few studies about the accuracy of anthropometric clinical indicators, using Computed Tomography (CT) as the gold standard. We aimed to determine the accuracy of anthropometric clinical indicators for discrimination of visceral obesity.MethodsCross-sectional study with 191 adults and elderly of both sexes. Variables: area of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) identified by CT, Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR), Conicity in… Show more

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“…Studies 43,51,52 have also proven that WHtR has high precision in the discrimination of visceral obesity and is more effective than WC and WHR in cardiovascular risk assessment and follow-up in individual and collective clinical practice.…”
Section: Cad Saúde Pública 2017; 33(5):e00195315mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies 43,51,52 have also proven that WHtR has high precision in the discrimination of visceral obesity and is more effective than WC and WHR in cardiovascular risk assessment and follow-up in individual and collective clinical practice.…”
Section: Cad Saúde Pública 2017; 33(5):e00195315mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Surrogates of traditional indices of adiposity may perform better in predicting type-2 diabetes and CVD risk in specific populations, depending on sex, age, ethnicity and clinical condition [22]. In our study, we were able to find different associations according to visceral index assessed.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…El índice de conicidad hallado evidencia su importancia con una curva ROC superponible a los índices cintura-cadera y ligeramente superiores a los índices cintura-talla. El estudio INTERHEART no analiza la conicidad ni el ICUT, ambos evidenciados como indicadores de riesgo coronario con alta precisión en la discriminación de la obesidad visceral (31). Ectomorfia e IMC son indicadores generales compuestos que no discriminan la obesidad central, pero la ectomorfia inversa muestra un ABC notable y es mejor predictor que el IMC.…”
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