ArticleNutrients2018
Fat-to-Muscle Ratio: A New Anthropometric Indicator as a Screening Tool for Metabolic Syndrome in Young Colombian People.
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- Sex- and Age-Specific Associations Between Visceral Fat-to-Muscle Ratio and Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents.International journal of endocrinology · 2026Article
- Body Muscle-to-Fat Ratio (BMFR) as a Promising Anthropometric Index for Use in the Evaluation of Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Disease Risk: a Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Clinical Significance of Skeletal Fat-to-Muscle Ratio in Idiopathic Hyperaldosteronism.Clinical endocrinology · 2025Article
- Peripheral Thyroid Hormone Sensitivity Mediates the Association Between Body Composition and Diabetes in Euthyroid Adults.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025Article
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- Association of fat-to-muscle ratio with hypertension: a cross-sectional study in China.Journal of human hypertension · 2025Article
- Predictive Diagnostic Power of Anthropometric Indicators for Metabolic Syndrome: A Comparative Study in Korean Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Association between fat-to-muscle ratio and diabetic kidney disease: a nationwide NHANES analysis with real-world validation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Resting Heart Rate Variability is Independently Associated with Visceral Fat Rating Scores in Saudi Adult Males.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Article
- The longitudinal association of adipose-to-lean ratio with incident cardiometabolic morbidity: The CARDIA study.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2024Article
- Diet and Lifestyle Intervention-Induced Pattern of Weight Loss Related to Reduction in Low-Attenuation Coronary Plaque Burden.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Glucose metabolism in gestational diabetes and their relationship with fat mass / muscle mass index.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2024Article
- Periodontal pathogens and obesity in the context of cardiovascular risks across age groups.Frontiers in oral health · 2024Article
- Total and Regional Fat/Muscle Mass Ratio and Risks of Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Combining Fat-to-Muscle Ratio and Alanine Aminotransferase/Aspartate Aminotransferase Ratio in the Prediction of Cardiometabolic Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2023Article
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- Fat-to-muscle ratio as a predictor for dyslipidaemia in transitional-age youth.Lipids in health and disease · 2022Article
- The Incidence of Body Posture Abnormalities in Relation to the Segmental Body Composition in Early School-Aged Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Fat-to-muscle ratio has been proposed as an alternative approach for assessing body fat. The objective of this study was to explore fat-to-muscle ratio thresholds in metabolic syndrome (MetS) diagnosis; it was hypothesised that the fat-to-muscle ratio is a good predictive indicator of MetS in a large population of young Colombian adults. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 1416 subjects (66.6% female), aged from 18.1 to 25.1. As part of the study, measurements of the subjects' anthropometric indicators, serum lipid indices, blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose were taken. Body composition was measured through bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). A new variable (ratio of fat mass to muscle mass, in kg) was calculated. Following the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition, MetS includes three or more metabolic abnormalities. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and logistic regression determined the discriminatory ability of the fat-to-muscle ratio to predict MetS. According to the IDF, the best fat-to-muscle ratio cut-off point for detecting MetS in men was 0.225 kg, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.83, sensitivity of 80%, and specificity of 70%. For women, the fat-to-muscle ratio cut-off point was 0.495 kg, the AUC was 0.88, and the sensitivity and specificity were 82% and 80%, respectively. In conclusion, our results showed that the fat-to-muscle ratio cut-off points from ROC analyses demonstrate good discriminatory power for detecting MetS in young Colombian adults.
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