title: A Useful Tool As a Medical Checkup in a General Population-Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis.
abstract: Accumulation of visceral fat leads to metabolic syndrome and increases risks of cerebro-cardiovascular diseases, which should be recognized and improved at the early stage in general population. Accurate measurement of visceral fat area (VFA) is commonly performed by the abdominal cross-sectional image measured by computed tomography scan, which is, however, limited due to the radiation exposure. The bioelectrical impedance analysis (OMRON, HDS-2000 DUALSCANR) has been recently developed to measure VFA, which is more easily accessible modality. In the present study, we investigated the clinical usefulness of DUALSCANRin 226 subjects who received health examination, including blood chemistries, electrocardiography, cardio, and carotid ultrasonography. VFA was measured within only just 5 min. Average of VFA was 83.5 ± 36.3 cm2in men, and 64.8 ± 28.0 cm2in women, which was correlated to weight (r= 0.7404,p< 0.0001), body mass index (BMI) (r= 0.7320,p< 0.0001), and waist circumstance (r= 0.7393,p< 0.0001). In multivariate analyses, VFA was significantly associated with weight (p< 0.0001), BMI (p< 0.0001), and waist circumstance (p< 0.0001). Compared to the group of smaller waist and normal BMI, VFA was significantly increased (p< 0.0001) in the group of larger waist and obese subjects. In conclusion, these results indicated that DUALSCANRis useful to measure VFA easily in general population, even in a large number of subjects.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Enomoto
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan; Department of Community Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adachi
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Ako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukami
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Eita
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Yume
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nohara
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Shoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Nagisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morikawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuru
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sakaue
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine , Kurume , Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukumoto
keywords: epidemiological study; general population; health examination; metabolic syndrome; visceral fat area