Body Composition
Ultrasonography is used to evaluate visceral fat and metabolic syndrome
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, November 14th, 2005
According to recent research from Spain, "Association between abdominal obesity and cardiovascular disease has been related with visceral adiposity, through the predisposition of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome (MS). Sonography is a simple and reliable method to measure both subcutaneous and visceral fat. [Our objective was] To analyze the relationship of anthropometric measurements with abdominal adiposity measured by sonography and to analyze the utility of sonography in the prediction of insulin resistance (IR) and the other components of MS."
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