A study on visceral fat in relation to anthropometry and lipid profile using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)
Background: Visceral fat plays important role and as an indicator in many health related disease and morbidity. It is defined as body fat that stored within the abdominal cavity around the important internal organs. The fat distribution in the human body is dependent on many factors such as gende...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Summary: | Background: Visceral fat plays important role and as an indicator in many health
related disease and morbidity. It is defined as body fat that stored within the abdominal
cavity around the important internal organs. The fat distribution in the human body is
dependent on many factors such as gender, age and ethnicity. The purpose of this study
is to determine the correlation between visceral fat and gender, anthropometry; and lipid
profile using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).
Methodology: Subjects were recruited from Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Kelantan. The inclusion criteria was adult aged 18 to 50 years old. Participants who
were pregnant, weighed more than 150kg, had any medical illness requiring anti-lipid
medication and had prolonged usage of steroid (more than 2 weeks) were excluded from
the study. Anthropometric measurements such as waist circumference, height, weight
and BMI were performed. Participants needed to fast for at least for 8 hours for serum
lipid profile test. Fasting serum lipid profile result obtained within 3 months before or
after DEXA scan was considered valid. DEXA scan was performed to quantify the
visceral fat in unit gram (g).
Results: Total of 112 participants fulfilled the study criteria. There was significant
different of visceral fat between male and female (p=0.024), in which male subjects
showed significantly higher VAT than female. It also showed strong correlation
between VAT with waist circumference, BMI and weight in both genders. There was
significant correlation between VAT with triglycerides (r=0.500, p=0.000), LDL
(r=0.222, p=0.019) and HDL (r= -0.440, p=0.000); from which only HDL presented
negative correlation with VAT.Conclusion: The findings of the study showed significant different of visceral fat
between gender. There is significant correlation between VAT and WC, BMI and serum
lipid profile. Thus, WC, BMI and lipid profile can be used as indicator to predict VAT. |
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