Relationship between Abdominal Aortic Calcification, Abdominal Adiposity, and Liver Density
| Autor: | Veysel Kaplanoglu, Selma Uysal Ramadan, Özlem Güngör, Cansu Öztürk, Merve Kasikci |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Waist Turkey business.industry Fatty liver Adipose tissue Spleen General Medicine medicine.disease Subcutaneous fat Gastroenterology Body Mass Index medicine.anatomical_structure Cross-Sectional Studies Liver Internal medicine Abdominal aortic calcification medicine Abdominal fat Humans Subcutaneous adipose tissue business Adiposity |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP. 30(12) |
| ISSN: | 1681-7168 |
| Popis: | To identify any relationship among visceral adipose tissue area (visceral FA), liver density (liver HU), psoas muscle area (psoas MA), waist circumference (WC) and the presence and severity of abdominal aortic calcific atherosclerosis (AAC).Cross-sectional descriptive study.Ankara Kecioren Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, from January to February 2019.This study included 316 patients, who had CT performed for urolithiasis investigation. For all patients, the presence and grade of AAC was recorded. Then, liver HU, spleen density (spleen HU), psoas MA, visceral FA, total abdominal fat area (total FA), subcutaneous fat area (subcutaneous FA), WC and hip circumference (HC) were measured on a workstation.AAC was present in 127 patients (40.2%). The age, visceral FA, total FA, visceral FA/total FA ratio, WC and WC/HC ratio of patients with AAC were significantly higher than for patients without AAC (p0.05). Psoas MA was significantly lower in patients with AAC (p0.05). The cut-off value of visceral FA for the prediction of AAC was 131 cm2. The risk for AAC was 4.5 times higher in the group with visceral FA131 cm2 (p0.001). There were significant correlations between AAC grade and liver HU and spleen HU (p = 0.002 and p = 0.001, respectively). However, there was no significant correlation between AAC grade and liver HU/spleen HU ratio (p = 0.741).Psoas muscle area, visceral adiposity and waist circumference can be used to predict abdominal aortic calcification. Key Words: Visceral adipose tissue, Subcutaneous adipose tissue, Fatty liver. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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