title: Trunk versus extremity adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in white and African American adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine contributions of trunk and extremity adiposity to cardiometabolic risk factors (blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides) among white and African American adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample consisted of 1,129 white women, 779 African American women, 1,012 white men, and 300 African American men.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Higher trunk adiposity was significantly associated with an increased risk of having two or more cardiometabolic risk factors among African American and white men and women. After adjustment for trunk and arm adiposity, higher leg adiposity was significantly associated with a decreased risk of having two or more cardiometabolic risk factors among white men and women and African American women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In contrast with adverse risk with high trunk adiposity, high leg adiposity is associated with a decreased risk of having two or more cardiometabolic risk factors in both African American and white adults.
authors.affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. gang.hu@pbrc.edu
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bouchard
authors.forename: George A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: Frank L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Greenway
authors.forename: William D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Newton
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ravussin
authors.forename: Donna H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Peter T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Katzmarzyk
mesh_terms: D050153:Abdominal Fat / Q000473:pathology*; D050154:Adiposity; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001132:Arm / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D044383:Black People; D001794:Blood Pressure; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood; D044465:White People
chemical_list: D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D014280:Triglycerides