TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of Measures for Abdominal Adiposity in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
AU - Emmons, Racine R.
AU - Garber, Carol Ewing
AU - Cirnigliaro, Christopher M.
AU - Kirshblum, Steven C.
AU - Spungen, Ann M.
AU - Bauman, William A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury ( #B4162C ).
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Ultrasound may be a useful tool to assess abdominal adiposity, but it has not been validated in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population. This study evaluated associations between abdominal ultrasound and other methods to assess adiposity in 24 men with SCI and 20 able-bodied (AB) men. Waist (WC) and hip circumference (HC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were measured. Trunk (TRK%), android (A%) and waist fat (W%) were determined by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA); ultrasonography determined abdominal subcutaneous (SF) and visceral fat (VF). The SCI group had greater TRK% (40.0 ± 9.6 vs. 32.0 ± 10.3), W% (47.0 ± 9.7 vs. 40.6 ± 9.4), A% (43.0 ± 9.8 vs. 35.8 ± 10.6) and WHR (0.99 ± 0.1 vs. 0.92 ± 0.06) than the AB group. WC and WHR correlated with VF in the SCI group. These associations suggest that ultrasound may be a useful tool in clinical practice for the measurement of VF in weight loss programs and for the assessment of cardiometabolic disorders.(E-mail: [email protected]).
AB - Ultrasound may be a useful tool to assess abdominal adiposity, but it has not been validated in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population. This study evaluated associations between abdominal ultrasound and other methods to assess adiposity in 24 men with SCI and 20 able-bodied (AB) men. Waist (WC) and hip circumference (HC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were measured. Trunk (TRK%), android (A%) and waist fat (W%) were determined by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA); ultrasonography determined abdominal subcutaneous (SF) and visceral fat (VF). The SCI group had greater TRK% (40.0 ± 9.6 vs. 32.0 ± 10.3), W% (47.0 ± 9.7 vs. 40.6 ± 9.4), A% (43.0 ± 9.8 vs. 35.8 ± 10.6) and WHR (0.99 ± 0.1 vs. 0.92 ± 0.06) than the AB group. WC and WHR correlated with VF in the SCI group. These associations suggest that ultrasound may be a useful tool in clinical practice for the measurement of VF in weight loss programs and for the assessment of cardiometabolic disorders.(E-mail: [email protected]).
KW - Abdominal adiposity
KW - Abdominal ultrasonography
KW - Spinal cord injury
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79954632490&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.02.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 21439716
AN - SCOPUS:79954632490
SN - 0301-5629
VL - 37
SP - 734
EP - 741
JO - Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
JF - Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
IS - 5
ER -