ArticleCardiovascular diabetology2014
Contribution of subcutaneous abdominal fat on ultrasonography to carotid atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Article in Cardiovascular diabetology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ultrasonography-based prediction of carotid artery atherosclerosis using multiple abdominal fat indices.Journal of ultrasonography · 2025Article
- Correlation between qualitative and semi-quantitative ultrasound assessment of diffuse fatty liver disease: A case-control study.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2024Article
- Nicotine dependence and visceral adiposity as risk factors for the development and severity of carotid artery stenosis.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
- Relevance of Subcutaneous Fat Thickness as a Risk Factor for Surgical Site Infections in Abdominal Surgeries.Cureus · 2022Article
- Noninvasive prediction of carotid artery atherosclerosis by multiple abdominal fat indices measured via ultrasonography.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Article
- Non-Invasive Prediction of Coronary Artery Disease by Multiple Abdominal Fat and Anthropometric Indices: Revisit.International journal of general medicine · 2021Article
- Long-term trajectories of BMI predict carotid stiffness and plaque volume in type 2 diabetes older adults: a cohort study.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2020Article
- Ultrasound imaging, a stethoscope for body composition assessment.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Review
- Hydrogen sulfide modulates high glucose-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2020Article
- Abdominal Fat Depots and Subclinical Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis in Women With and Without HIV Infection.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Article
- Clinical relevance of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as a simultaneous evaluation of fatty liver disease and atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2016Article
- Is visceral adiposity a modifier for the impact of blood pressure on arterial stiffness and albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes?Cardiovascular diabetology · 2016Article
- High visceral fat with low subcutaneous fat accumulation as a determinant of atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2015Article
- Diagnostic and prognostic utility of non-invasive imaging in diabetes management.World journal of diabetes · 2015Review
- Cross-species gene expression analysis identifies a novel set of genes implicated in human insulin sensitivity.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2015Article
- Predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis evaluated by carotid intima-media thickness in asymptomatic young women with type 1 diabetes mellitus.Archives of endocrinology and metabolismArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWhereas visceral abdominal adipose tissue (VAT) is associated with cardiometabolic risk, there is debate regarding the role of subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAT). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships of subcutaneous and visceral abdominal fat with carotid atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
methodsA total of 234 patients (men 131, women 103, mean age: 53 years) with T2DM were enrolled. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) and visceral fat thickness (VFT) were assessed by high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography (US).
resultsCompared to women, men had significantly higher VFT and lower SFT (p = 0.002, p = 0.04, respectively). In partial correlation coefficient analyses between CIMT and abdominal fat thickness after adjustment for body mass index (BMI), SFT showed a negative correlation with CIMT in men (r = -0.27, p = 0.03). VFT was not correlated with CIMT in either men or women. In women, SFT was not correlated with CIMT (r = -0.01, p = 0.93). VFT/SFT ratio was not correlated with CIMT in either men or women. In multivariate regression analyses adjusted for BMI and other CVD risk factors, SFT but not VFT was independently inversely associated with CIMT in men but not in women (p < 0.001).
conclusionsSFT assessed by US was inversely associated with carotid atherosclerosis in patients with T2DM, particularly men. Further research into the different roles of the two types of abdominal adipose tissue in both men and women is warranted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.