Keywords:
Radiographers, Soft tissues / Skin, Experimental investigations, Metabolic disorders, Eating disorders, Tissue characterisation, Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
Authors:
R. A. M. Santos, A. C. Girão, J. P. Figueiredo; Coimbra/PT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1435
Conclusion
According with the results of this study,
Reaven (1967) and Golay (1987) demonstrated that in non-diabetic subjects,
the insulin resistance is associated to the development of hypertriglyceridemia and the decrease of HDL (7,8). In fact all these changes are determinants for cardiovascular disease (9). In 1956,
Vague already defended the existence of distinct patterns of body adiposity distribution; associated with the android fat,
metabolic disorders and changes in glycemic metabolism (10).
Currently,
the association of abdominal obesity with the components of the metabolic syndrome is well established.
Patients with a higher degree of insulin resistance have greater intra-abdominal deposition of fat (11).
Several authors point to the close relationship between visceral fat,
insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk (10-14).
Grijalba (2001) defends that obesity is a chronic disease characterized by excessive fat accumulation and therefore the proper diagnosis of obesity should be based on the determination of body fat (15).
In conclusion, the predictors of body fat and android fat revealed a moderate explanatory pattern,
taking into account the predictors of gender and triglycerides.
And the difference in body fat was positively explained in females and in the presence of higher triglycerides (the remaining biochemical parameters were excluded).