Gadekar Tukaram, Dudeja Puja, Basu Ipsita, Vashisht Shruti, Mukherji Sandip
Resident, Department of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
Med J Armed Forces India. 2020 Jan;76(1):41-46. doi: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2017.12.001. Epub 2018 Feb 1.
Visceral Fat (VF) is the underlying culprit for cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, etc. VF can be estimated at present only by using expensive instruments as Bio Impedance Analyzer (BIA), DEXA scanner, etc. Measurement of Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR) can be used as a proxy for VF. Hence, the present study was done to assess the role of WHR as appropriate technology for assessment of VF. The aim of this study was to find correlation of Visceral Fat Area (VFA) with (WHR), Waist Circumference (WC) and Body Mass Index (BMI) in young healthy adults.
It was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 215 healthy adults over one year in Western Maharashtra. Biospace 720 was used to assess VF. Data was analyzed by using software SPSS version 20.0. In body 720 was used to assess VF of subjects.
Majority 155 (73%) were males and 57 (27%) were females. Nearly half (42% of males, 49% of females) had VFA above cut off value (i.e. 100 cm) and 42% of males had WHR >0.9 and 56% of females had WHR >0.8. We found a very strong correlation between VFA and WHR ( = 0.936, < 0.05) among males and females ( = 0.920, < 0.05) and correlation between WC and BMI with VFA ( = 0.739, = 0.758) for males, ( = 0.774, = 0.605) for females was modest.
There is a strong correlation between VF and WHR. Measurement of WHR is simple, handy, and inexpensive tool which can be used as a surrogate to measure VF.
内脏脂肪（VF）是心血管疾病、2型糖尿病、乳腺癌等疾病的潜在元凶。目前，只能通过使用昂贵的仪器，如生物电阻抗分析仪（BIA）、双能X线吸收测定仪等来估计内脏脂肪。腰臀比（WHR）的测量可作为内脏脂肪的替代指标。因此，本研究旨在评估腰臀比作为评估内脏脂肪的合适技术的作用。本研究的目的是找出年轻健康成年人的内脏脂肪面积（VFA）与腰臀比（WHR）、腰围（WC）和体重指数（BMI）之间的相关性。
这是一项描述性横断面研究，在马哈拉施特拉邦西部对215名健康成年人进行了为期一年的研究。使用Biospace 720评估内脏脂肪。数据使用SPSS 20.0版软件进行分析。在人体720中用于评估受试者的内脏脂肪。
大多数155名（73%）为男性，57名（27%）为女性。近一半（男性的42%，女性的49%）的内脏脂肪面积高于临界值（即100平方厘米），42%的男性腰臀比>0.9，56%的女性腰臀比>0.8。我们发现男性和女性的内脏脂肪面积与腰臀比之间存在非常强的相关性（男性r = 0.936，P < 0.05；女性r = 0.920，P < 0.05），男性腰围和体重指数与内脏脂肪面积之间的相关性（r = 0.739，r = 0.758），女性的相关性（r = 0.774，r = 0.605）较为适中。
内脏脂肪与腰臀比之间存在很强的相关性。腰臀比的测量是一种简单、方便且廉价的工具，可作为测量内脏脂肪的替代方法。
