PMID: 11320744Apr 26, 2001Paper

Current diagnostic methods of the specific distribution of adipose tissue

Medicinski pregled
T Ivković-Lazar

Abstract

The classification of obesity into male or the android type and female or the gynoid type dates from the first clinical observations of J. Vague in the distant 1947. Researches carried out in the recent years show that in the android type of obesity there is an insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism as a metabolic bases for accelerated atherosclerosis. These insights imposed a need to determine body composition, and within it also the mass and the fat tissue distribution. The simplest anthropometric parameter which gives us insight into the nutritional status is BMI, while waist/hip ratio (WHR) offers orientation for the fat tissue distribution. The subcutaneous fat tissue is measured by standard calipers. A particularly important anthropometric parameter which has been increasingly applied in the recent years is the sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) measured by a simple caliper constructed by Kahn. This anthropometric indicator measures only the visceral fat tissue. As for other techniques, in the first place one should mention measuring of body density which presents a relation between the body mass an volume. Tetrapolar bioelectric impedance analysis is based on measuring the resistance of the body exposed to the impact of a...Continue Reading

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