Why the study?
Do simpler methods (WC, BIA, DXA) correlate with MRI for measuring abdominal adipose tissue?
Do simpler methods (WC, BIA, DXA) correlate with MRI for measuring abdominal adipose tissue?
Simpler methods like waist circumference, BIA, and DXA correlate well with total abdominal adipose tissue but not visceral adipose tissue measured by MRI.
Simpler methods should not replace MRI for visceral fat assessment; leaves open their role as TAAT surrogates in research.
None of the simpler techniques show strong correlations with VAT measured by MRI, but WC, abdominal BIA 'visceral fat level' and DXA L2-L4 fat all show similar and strong correlations with TAAT and may be useful in large scale surveys.
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Browning et al. (2011) studied this question.