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Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the abdominal visceral fat area (VFA), we developed novel ultrasonographic (US) methods for estimating. METHODS: 100 male volunteers were recruited, and their VFA was calculated by two novel US methods, the triangle method and the ellipse method. The VFA calculated by these m...

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Autores principales: Asano, Takeharu, Kubota, Naoto, Koizumi, Norihiro, Itani, Kazunori, Mitake, Tsuyoshi, Yuhashi, Kazuhito, Liao, Hongen, Mitsuishi, Mamoru, Takeishi, Shigemi, Takahashi, Toshiaki, Ohnishi, Shin, Sasaki, Shiro, Sakuma, Ichiro, Kadowaki, Takashi
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Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8796069
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author Asano, Takeharu
Kubota, Naoto
Koizumi, Norihiro
Itani, Kazunori
Mitake, Tsuyoshi
Yuhashi, Kazuhito
Liao, Hongen
Mitsuishi, Mamoru
Takeishi, Shigemi
Takahashi, Toshiaki
Ohnishi, Shin
Sasaki, Shiro
Sakuma, Ichiro
Kadowaki, Takashi
author_facet Asano, Takeharu
Kubota, Naoto
Koizumi, Norihiro
Itani, Kazunori
Mitake, Tsuyoshi
Yuhashi, Kazuhito
Liao, Hongen
Mitsuishi, Mamoru
Takeishi, Shigemi
Takahashi, Toshiaki
Ohnishi, Shin
Sasaki, Shiro
Sakuma, Ichiro
Kadowaki, Takashi
author_sort Asano, Takeharu
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the abdominal visceral fat area (VFA), we developed novel ultrasonographic (US) methods for estimating. METHODS: 100 male volunteers were recruited, and their VFA was calculated by two novel US methods, the triangle method and the ellipse method. The VFA calculated by these methods was compared with the VFA calculated by CT. RESULTS: Both the VFA calculated by the triangle method (r = 0.766, p < 0.001) and the ellipse method (r = 0.781, p < 0.001) showed a high correlation coefficient with the VFA calculated by CT. Also, the VFA calculated by our novel methods were significantly increased in subjects with one or more metabolic risk factors than in those without any risk factors. Furthermore, the correlation coefficients obtained using the two methods were enhanced by the addition of multiple regression analysis (with the triangle method, r = 0.8586, p < 0.001; with the ellipse method, r = 0.8642, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The VFA calculated by the triangle or ellipse method showed a high correlation coefficient with the VFA calculated by CT. These US methods are easy to use, they involve no radiation exposure, and the measurements can be conducted frequently. We hope that our simple methods would be widely adopted for the evaluation of VFA.
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spelling pubmed-55855582017-11-01 Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area Asano, Takeharu Kubota, Naoto Koizumi, Norihiro Itani, Kazunori Mitake, Tsuyoshi Yuhashi, Kazuhito Liao, Hongen Mitsuishi, Mamoru Takeishi, Shigemi Takahashi, Toshiaki Ohnishi, Shin Sasaki, Shiro Sakuma, Ichiro Kadowaki, Takashi Int J Endocrinol Research Article OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the abdominal visceral fat area (VFA), we developed novel ultrasonographic (US) methods for estimating. METHODS: 100 male volunteers were recruited, and their VFA was calculated by two novel US methods, the triangle method and the ellipse method. The VFA calculated by these methods was compared with the VFA calculated by CT. RESULTS: Both the VFA calculated by the triangle method (r = 0.766, p < 0.001) and the ellipse method (r = 0.781, p < 0.001) showed a high correlation coefficient with the VFA calculated by CT. Also, the VFA calculated by our novel methods were significantly increased in subjects with one or more metabolic risk factors than in those without any risk factors. Furthermore, the correlation coefficients obtained using the two methods were enhanced by the addition of multiple regression analysis (with the triangle method, r = 0.8586, p < 0.001; with the ellipse method, r = 0.8642, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The VFA calculated by the triangle or ellipse method showed a high correlation coefficient with the VFA calculated by CT. These US methods are easy to use, they involve no radiation exposure, and the measurements can be conducted frequently. We hope that our simple methods would be widely adopted for the evaluation of VFA. Hindawi 2017 2017-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5585558/ /pubmed/29093737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8796069 Text en Copyright © 2017 Takeharu Asano et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Asano, Takeharu
Kubota, Naoto
Koizumi, Norihiro
Itani, Kazunori
Mitake, Tsuyoshi
Yuhashi, Kazuhito
Liao, Hongen
Mitsuishi, Mamoru
Takeishi, Shigemi
Takahashi, Toshiaki
Ohnishi, Shin
Sasaki, Shiro
Sakuma, Ichiro
Kadowaki, Takashi
Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title_full Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title_fullStr Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title_full_unstemmed Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title_short Novel and Simple Ultrasonographic Methods for Estimating the Abdominal Visceral Fat Area
title_sort novel and simple ultrasonographic methods for estimating the abdominal visceral fat area
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8796069
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