title: Correlation of abdominal fat distribution with different types of diabetes in a Chinese population.
abstract: To investigate abdominal fat distribution in Chinese subjects with diabetes and its correlation with different types of diabetes. A total of 176 diabetic subjects were enrolled, 92 with type 1 and 84 with type 2, with a mean age of 27.41 and 49.3 yrs. No subject has history of severe diseases. Multi-slice CT was used to measure total abdominal adipose (TA) and visceral adipose (VA) tissues. Subcutaneous adipose (SA) tissue was obtained by subtracting VA from TA. There were differences between subjects with T1DM and T2DM for TA, VA, SA, VA/SA, body mass index (BMI), triglyceride (TG) and high density lipoprotein, but not total Cholesterol or low density lipoprotein. There were positive correlations between TA, VA, SA, VA/SA and T1DM and T2DM (P < 0.05 and r > 0.86). In subjects with T1DM, VA was negatively correlated with HDL, positively with BMI and age, and SA was positively correlated with BMI and sex (P < 0.05 and r > 0.86 for all). In subjects with T2DM, VA was positively correlated to BMI, TG and age, and SA was positively correlated to TG and sex (P < 0.05 and r > 0.86 for all). Abdominal fat content was positively correlated to diabetes in Chinese, which differs in different types of diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Anhui
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Haodan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dang
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Haitao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Hongmin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Aerospace Central Hospital, 15 Yu'quan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Xiaojin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D050153:Abdominal Fat / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D050218:Body Fat Distribution; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult