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Body fat percentage and sacral-abdominal wall distance are associated with obesity in patients with osteoporosis: a retrospective study. [PDF]

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Androgens and abdominal obesity

Baillière's Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1998
Central or visceral obesity is recognized as a main risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The co-existence of visceral obesity, increased blood lipid levels, hypertension and impaired glucose tolerance defines the metabolic syndrome that today is widely recognized as one of the prime factors behind cardiovascular ...
P, Mårin, S, Arver
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Abdominal obesity

Current Opinion in Lipidology, 1998
The application of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography to obesity research has changed the focus from body mass and skinfold thickness to abdominal fat mass and visceral adiposity. Intra-abdominal fat constitutes less than 20% of total body fat but is a major determinant of fasting and postprandial lipid availability because of its ...
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Abdominal Obesity and Risk

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. Part A: Theory and Practice, 1990
The relationship between insulin and hypertension. The statistical association between hypertension and hyperinsulinemia has been observed repeatedly. There is also considerable evidence of a causal relationship either via effects on the sympathetic nervous system or via reabsorption of sodium or both (for recent reviews see 1–3).
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Dysglycemia and Abdominal Obesity

Current Vascular Pharmacology, 2012
Dysglycemia as a pre-stage of diabetes mellitus and abdominal obesity are closely interrelated at multiple levels and by a whole array of complex mechanisms, many of which seem to have the potential of causing harm to large blood vessels, in particular to coronary and peripheral vascular segments.
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