title: Imaging body fat: techniques and cardiometabolic implications.
abstract: Obesity is a worldwide epidemic and is associated with multiple comorbidities. The mechanisms underlying the relationship between obesity and adverse health outcomes remain poorly understood. This may be because of several factors including the crude measures used to estimate adiposity, the striking heterogeneity between adipose tissue depots, and the influence of fat accumulation in multiple organs. To advance our understanding of fat stores and associated comorbidities in humans, it will be necessary to image adiposity throughout the body and ultimately also assess its functionality. Large clinical studies are demonstrating the prognostic importance of adipose tissue imaging. Newer techniques capable of imaging fat metabolism and other functions of adipose tissue may provide additional prognostic use and may be useful in guiding therapeutic interventions.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: Y E
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. deitzman@umich.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Eitzman
mesh_terms: D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D050154:Adiposity; D000818:Animals; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D051598:Whole Body Imaging
keywords: abdominal fat; adipose tissue; brown fat; inflammation; obesity; white fat