Reliability of anthropometric parameters in the prediction of the visceral fat area among adult women
| Autor: | György Pálfi, Erika Molnár, Gábor Dávid Kiss, Andor H. Molnár, Kornélia Orbán, Csaba Varga, Ferenc László, Zoltán Pintér, András Szász |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Waist Intra-Abdominal Fat Statistics Nonparametric Correlation Anthropometric parameters Electric Impedance Humans Medicine Risk factor Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Aged Hungary Anthropometry business.industry Obstetrics Age Factors Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Middle Aged Overweight Stepwise regression medicine.disease Circumference Obesity Anthropology Body Composition Female Animal Science and Zoology Waist Circumference business |
| Zdroj: | Anthropologischer Anzeiger. 70:147-164 |
| ISSN: | 0003-5548 |
| DOI: | 10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0238 |
| Popis: | Visceral fat accumulation is a risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) provided the most accurate techniques of abdominal fat assessment, but these methods are very expensive. The aim of this study was to examine and compare the predictive ability of simple anthropometric parameters for visceral fat area (VFA) among adult women in different age and obesity status groups. The sample consisted of 133 adult women (aged 18-76 years). All subjects underwent anthropometric measurements. Body composition and VFA were determined with a multi-frequency bioimpedance analyzer (BIA). 16.9% of the younger women (age45) were obese with a body-mass index (BMI)or = 30.0 kg/m2, and 23.2% of the older individuals (age45) had BMIor = 30 kg/m2. After age and BMI adjustment, the best correlation was observed between VFA and waist circumference (WC) in younger women (R = 0.347, p = 0.002). In the case of the older women, the best correlation efficient values were for SAD (R = 0.560, p0.001) and hip circumference (R = 0.550, p0.001). The partial correlation coefficients were consistently higher for younger subjects with excessive fat accumulation (overweightobese subgroup; individuals with WC80 cm) compared to women without obesity. Results of the multiple linear stepwise regression analyses showed the significance of age and BMI in prediction of VFA. In addition, hip circumference (HC) was one of the methods that best reflected VFA in older women independently from obesity status. Using single anthropometric parameters is not usually sufficient for predicting with good accuracy the VFA, but the convenient combination of these parameters could be a suitable way for the reliable prediction in Hungarian women. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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