AnalyzeDirect Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe1, Ken K. Ong1 2, Alison Sleigh3 4, David B. Dunger2 and Shane A. Norris2 5. Abdominal fat depots associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome risk factors in black African young adults. BMC Public Health. October 2015.
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Publication Date
October 2015
How Analyze was Used
“Cross-sectional VAT and abdominal SCAT areas were calculated from a single slice located at the L4 vertebral body by a semi-automated method, using an intensity thresholded map (Analyze 7.0, BIR, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN) with manual input to differentiate between the abdominal fat compartments…”
Keywords
Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT)
Subcutaneous-Abdominal Adipose Tissue (SCAT)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Author Affiliation(s)
1 Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
3 Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
4 National Institute for Health Research/Wellcome Trust Cambridge Clinical Research Facility, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
5 MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Tags: Abdominal Fat, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Obesity, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), Visceral Adipose Tissue