Do CT-derived measures of abdominal adiposity provide better predictive ability for visceral adipose tissue proportion than BMI in Chinese adults?
CT-derived measures of visceral adiposity provide a better assessment of cardiometabolic risk than BMI in Chinese adults, as VAT proportion cannot be reliably predicted by BMI.
In a nationwide study conducted in China, distributions of CT-derived measures of visceral and subcutaneous adiposity were found to vary significantly between sex and age groups. Our study also revealed that the proportion of VAT (an important driver of cardiometabolic risk) could not be predicted from BMI in a Chinese population.
Zeng et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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