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Presurgical Assessment of Intra-abdominal Visceral Fat in Obese Patients

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To date, obesity is simply defined as body mass index (BMI) higher or equal to 30 kg/m2 (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney diseases 1998). Although BMI is widely accepted as a marker of adiposity in population-based studies, and is recognized as an instrument to diagnose obesity for all age groups, it should be more properly seen as an index of weight excess, rather than body fatness.

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Abbreviations

AFI:

Abdominal wall fat index

BMI:

Body mass index

CT:

Computed tomography

DXA:

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

LADG:

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

P:

Preperitoneal fat layer

RCT:

Randomized controlled trial

RR:

Relative risk

S:

Subcutaneous fat layer

SC:

Subcutaneous

SF:

Subcutaneous fat

SPAIR:

Spectral attenuation with inversion recovery

THRIVE:

3D T1-high-resolution isotropic volume examination

VF:

Visceral fat

WC:

Circumference of the waist

WHO:

World Health Organization

WHR:

Waist-to-hip ratio

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    Stefano Palomba

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Falbo, A., Palomba, S. (2012). Presurgical Assessment of Intra-abdominal Visceral Fat in Obese Patients. In: Preedy, V. (eds) Handbook of Anthropometry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1788-1_125

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