ArticlePloS one2020
Added values of DXA-derived visceral adipose tissue to discriminate cardiometabolic risks in pre-pubertal children.
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- Clinical Thresholds for Visceral Adiposity Accumulation: A Comparative Analysis in Sex-, Age-, and BMI-Matched Black and White Adults.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Exploring Visceral Fat as a Screening Marker for Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations between maternal overweight/obesity during pregnancy and body composition in young adult offspring.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence of and Factors Associated With High Blood Pressure at 15 Years of Age: A Birth Cohort Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Associations between visceral adipose tissue estimates produced by near-infrared spectroscopy, mobile anthropometrics, and traditional body composition assessments and estimates derived from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Visceral fat and arterial stiffness in youth with healthy weight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe new generation of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanners provide visceral adipose tissue (VAT) estimates by applying different algorithms to the conventional DXA-derived fat parameters such as total fat, trunk fat and android fat for the same image data.
objectiveThis cross-sectional study aimed to investigate whether VAT estimates from Hologic scanners are better predictors of VAT than conventional DXA parameters in pre-pubertal children, and to explore the discrimination ability of these VAT methods for cardiometabolic risks.
methodsHealthy pre-pubertal children aged 7-10 years were recruited for basic anthropometric, DXA and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements. Laboratory tests included lipid profile, glycaemic tests and blood pressure.
resultsAll VAT methods had acceptable to excellent performance for the diagnosis of dyslipidaemia (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.753-0.837) and hypertensive risk (AUC = 0.710-0.821) in boys, but suboptimal performance for these risks in girls, except for VAT by MRI in the diagnosis of dyslipidaemia. In both sexes, all VAT methods had no or poor discrimination ability for diabetes risk.
conclusionsDXA-derived VAT estimates are very highly correlated with standard methods but has equivalent discrimination abilities compared to the existing DXA-derived fat estimates.
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