On the relationship between CT measured abdominal fat parameters and three metabolic risk biomarkers

Abstract

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and there is a need for the development of adjacent markers to assess cardiovascular risk. In this study, we examined the relationship between the areas of abdominal fat compartments, as measured by computed tomography (CT)-based planar measurements, and laboratory-validated cardiovascular risk markers.

Keywords

• computed tomography
• abdominal fat
• glycemia
• triglyceride
• triglyceride glucose index