OBESITY AS CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR: ACCENT ON QUALITY AND FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF ADIPOSE TISSUE
Obesity is one of the main cardiovascular risk factors. Recently there are significant shifts in conceptual relationships of obesity and cardiovascular diseases as there are new results of epidemiologic and prospective studies. Currently there is strict evidence for criticism of obesity definition a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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«FIRMA «SILICEA» LLC
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Российский кардиологический журнал |
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| Online Access: | https://russjcardiol.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/296 |
| Summary: | Obesity is one of the main cardiovascular risk factors. Recently there are significant shifts in conceptual relationships of obesity and cardiovascular diseases as there are new results of epidemiologic and prospective studies. Currently there is strict evidence for criticism of obesity definition and classification basing on body mass index that makes necessary to pay attention to the localization of adipose tissue, amount of visceral fat and its functional characteristics. Method that possibly can improve prognostic assessment of the risk in obesity is the usage of direct methods for visceral fat tissue evaluation. |
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| ISSN: | 1560-4071 2618-7620 |