Tag: visceral fat

A standardized standing sagittal abdominal diameter measurement using a low-cost L-shaped caliper matched or slightly exceeded waist circumference for detecting ...

A controlled swine trial found that replacing corn with beef tallow reduced visceral and subcutaneous fat while boosting pancreatic beta-cell ...

A new cross-sectional study of Middle Eastern young adults finds that night eating syndrome is associated with elevated leptin, insulin ...

A 16-week multidisciplinary weight-loss intervention significantly improved resting lung function, ventilatory efficiency, body composition, and cardiorespiratory fitness in 92 adolescents ...

New research in Experimental & Molecular Medicine links specific gut bacterial taxa and the glycogen synthesis pathway to the accumulation ...

A 90-day randomized trial in Brazil found that the oral peptide Pep19 significantly improved abdominal fat distribution, HbA1c, and insulin ...

A large NHANES-based cohort study finds that normal weight adults with central adiposity carry the highest cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic multimorbidity burden and ...

A new review finds that muscle mass, fat distribution, and sarcopenic obesity strongly influence chemotherapy toxicity in early-stage breast cancer, ...

A new study using whole-body metabolic imaging has linked unusually active visceral fat—the energy-storing tissue packed around abdominal organs—with disrupted ...