Preperitoneal fat thickness (PFT) of patients undergoing a medical examination assessed by an ultrasonographic method
Journal Title: Journal of Analytical Bio-Science - Year 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2
Abstract
We investigated whether the accumulation of visceral fat, assessed by a simple but widely used ultrasonographic method, was associated with a metabolic syndrome in patients undergoing a medical examination. The subjects were 206 patients (184 men and 22 women). PFT preperitoneal fat thickness was found to be positively correlated with serum total cholesterol (r=0.25), triglyceride (r=0.20), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (r=0.24), glutamic pyruvic transaminase (r=0.23), fasting blood sugar (r=0.17), diastolic blood pressure (r=0.26), systolic blood pressure (r=0.25), abdominal girth (r=0.52) and body mass index (r=0.50), and negatively correlated with serum high- density lipoprotein cholesterol (r=-0.23). When the subjects were divided into high and low PFT groups, body mass index, triglyceride levels, low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and fasting blood sugar levels in the high PFT group were confirmed as significantly higher, and while the levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were significantly lower than those in the low PFT group. These findings suggest that PFT determined by ultrasonography may prove useful in screening for the accumulation of visceral fat in patients undergoing a medical examination.
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Emi Uchibori
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