Sex Differences in the Associations of Visceral Adipose Tissue and Cardiometabolic and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Framingham Heart Study

Sex Differences in the Associations of Visceral Adipose Tissue and Cardiometabolic and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Framingham Heart Study

Background Men and women are labeled as obese on the basis of a body mass index (BMI) using the same criterion despite known differences in their fat distributions. Subcutaneous adipose tissue and visceral adipose tissue (VAT), as measured by computed tomography, are advanced measures of obesity tha...

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Main Authors: Andreas A. Kammerlander, Asya Lyass, Taylor F. Mahoney, Joseph M. Massaro, Michelle T. Long, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Udo Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
body mass index
cardiovascular risk
metabolic health
obesity
sex differences
visceral adipose tissue
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.019968

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