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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL DENSITOMETRY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 58-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2016.04.004
Keywords
Body fat distribution; densitometry; epidemiology; risk factors
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [23390180, 23590824, 23657176, 23659362]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23390180, 23657176, 16K19263, 15H05102, 23659362, 23590824] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In epidemiological studies, there is little evidence regarding the relative impact of central adiposity and peripheral adiposity on cardiometabolic risk factors, especially in Asian populations. This study investigated associations between central-to-peripheral fat ratios and cardiometabolic variables using data from a population based study of Japanese women. The source population was composed of 1800 women aged 50 yr or older at the 15th- to 16th-yr follow-up survey of the Japanese Population-Based Osteoporosis Cohort Study. This study analyzed cross-sectional data from 998 women for whom complete information about body fat variables according to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, cardiometabolic variables, and potential confounding factors was available. Both before and after adjusting for potential confounding factors, trunk-to-appendicular fat ratios showed significant (p < 0.05) correlations with brachial ankle pulse wave velocity, serum lipids, and hemoglobin A1c levels. Relationships between fat ratios and cardiometabolic variables were independent of relationships between fat volumes (in whole body or in trunk) and cardiometabolic variables. Furthermore, relationships between trunk-to-appendicular fat ratios and cardiometabolic variables were observed among women in the lowest tertile of total body fat (brachial ankle pulse wave velocity, beta = 0.08; high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, beta = -0.32; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, beta = 0.15; and hemoglobin A1C, beta = 0.16; p < 0.05, respectively). Central adiposity is more related to cardiometabolic variables than peripheral adiposity. Information on central-to-peripheral fat ratios is particularly valuable for the evaluation of relatively thin Japanese women.
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