Relationships between the distribution of abdominal adipose tissue and the components of metabolic syndrome / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between the distribution of abdominal adipose tissue and metabolic abnormality in the patients with metabolic syndrome (MS). Methods 108 patients (MS 70 cases, essential hypertension (EH) 22 cases and type Ⅱ diabetes mellitus (T2DM) 16 cases) were enrolled in this study. The visceral adipose (VA) and subcutaneous adipose (SA) were measured with computerized tomography (CT), the ratio of VA/SA was calculated and the correlation between them was analyzed. Results (1) The VA value in MS group was significantly higher compared to both T2DM and EH groups (P