Gynoid and android fat patterning in Japanese-American men: Body build and glucose metabolism

American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council
L L Newell-MorrisW Y Fujimoto

Abstract

Subcutaneous fat patterning was investigated in a sample of 229 second generation (Nisei) Japanese-American men enrolled in an epidemiological study of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The study sample consisted of 78 men with diabetes, 72 with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and 79 with normal glucose tolerance, classified by a 75 gm oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT) and world Health Organization criteria. A combination of hierarchal cluster analysis and logarithmic regression analysis using skinfold thickness at seven anatomical sites yielded two distinctive fat pattern groups, viz, a gynoid fat pattern group (n = 16), with a significantly greater percentage of fat on the extremities; and an exaggerated android group (n = 34), with proportionately more fat on the trunk than predicted from total skinfold fat thickness. The two fat pattern groups and a sample of men of normal glucose tolerance (n = 53) were compared by analysis of variance with respect to 12 somatometric variables and indices encompassing length, breadth and muscle mass parameters. The three groups did not differ in age or height. In weight and body mass index, the gynoid fat pattern group was lowest, although there were no significant intergroup diffe...Continue Reading

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