Nakamura Tadashi
Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University.
Nihon Rinsho. 2009 Feb;67(2):313-8.
We and others have shown that accumulation of intra-abdominal visceral fat is associated with various complications of obesity. At present, CT is an optimal technique for the accurate assessment of visceral fat. Visceral fat areas from single scan obtained at the level of the umbilicus are highly correlated with the total visceral fat volume. We developed a practical and standardized method for measuring visceral fat area with CT to determine fat areas on the basis of a flexible attenuation range. Recently, we also developed the software of this method installed in a personal computer. Furthermore, now we are developing a new conventional method for presuming visceral fat volume using abdominal bioelectrical impedance method.
我们和其他研究人员已经表明，腹部内脏脂肪的堆积与肥胖的各种并发症相关。目前，CT是准确评估内脏脂肪的最佳技术。在脐水平单次扫描获得的内脏脂肪面积与总内脏脂肪体积高度相关。我们开发了一种实用且标准化的CT测量内脏脂肪面积的方法，以基于灵活的衰减范围确定脂肪面积。最近，我们还开发了安装在个人计算机上的该方法的软件。此外，我们现在正在开发一种使用腹部生物电阻抗法推测内脏脂肪体积的新传统方法。
