Why the study?
Japanese criteria for metabolic syndrome require abdominal obesity, but it is unclear if weight reduction benefits those without abdominal obesity for cardiometabolic risk factors.
Requires abdominal obesity for MetS diagnosis; challenges 2009 consensus and refines cardiometabolic risk stratification.
A consensus statement (1) for the criteria of metabolic syndrome (MetS) where abdominal obesity is not a necessary component was jointly issued by the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the American Heart Association; the World Heart Federation; the International Atherosclerosis Society; and the International Association for the Study of Obesity. However, abdominal or visceral fat obesity is a necessary component in Japanese criteria of MetS (2), and some Japanese investigators insist that weight reduction is ineffective to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in subjects without abdominal obesity. Therefore, I investigated whether …
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Eiji Oda (2010) conducted a letter in Cardiometabolic risk factors. Weight reduction was evaluated. Weight reduction was investigated for its potential to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in Japanese men without abdominal obesity, but no quantitative results were reported in the truncated abstract.
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