Body fat distribution and cardiovascular risk in middle-aged people in Southern Italy

doi:10.1016/0021-9150(86)90077-8

Atherosclerosis

Volume 61, Issue 2, August 1986, Pages 169-172

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Abstract

Skinfold thickness, % body fat content, body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, plasma glucose, serum cholesterol and triglycerides have been measured in 132 middle-aged men (mean age 39.8 ± 9.9, range 20–59 yr) and in 114 middle-aged women (mean age 39.1 ± 9.3, range 20–59 yr). Anthropometric data were related to blood pressure and biochemical parameters by using a straight-line regression analysis. Body mass index, % body fat content, subscapular and suprailiac skinfold thickness, consideral as indicative of splanchnic fat distribution, were positively correlated to blood pressure, plasma glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides. Triceps skinfold thickness, an index of peripheral fat distribution, showed weaker or no correlation with these parameters. These preliminary observations in the Neapolitan area support the hypothesis that, in addition to body mass index and % body fat content, preferential splanchnic fat distribution is associated with cardiovascular risk factors.

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^☆: Preliminary accounts of this paper have been presented at the International Symposium on Nutritional and Metabolic Aspects of Arterial Hypertension, Anacapri, June 1985, and at the International Symposium on Metabolic Complications of Human Obesities, Marseille, May/June 1985.

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Preliminary noteBody fat distribution and cardiovascular risk in middle-aged people in Southern Italy☆

Abstract

Amer. J. Clin. Nutr.

J. Chron. Dis.

Europ. J. Clin. Inv.

Lancet

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Brit. Med. J.

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Preliminary note
Body fat distribution and cardiovascular risk in middle-aged people in Southern Italy☆