SynthesisFrontiers in endocrinology2022
Abdominal Visceral Adipose Tissue and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of adipose-related parameters on mortality in patients with liver cirrhosis: a meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Infant fat mass and later child and adolescent health outcomes: a systematic review.Archives of disease in childhood · 2024Pooled it
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- Effects of lifestyle and glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonist-based therapies on waist circumference: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity pillars · 2026Article
- Abdominal fat thickness predicts the risk of pregnancy-associated hypertension: A prospective cohort study.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of Total Body Fat Percentiles, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Health Biomarkers in Adults in the United States.Obesity science & practice · 2026Article
- Optimal visceral adipose tissue thresholds that minimize risk for osteoporosis and/or diabetes in midlife women.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2026Article
- Automated CT-based visceral fat density predicts mortality regardless of visceral fat area.The British journal of radiology · 2026Article
- Ratio of visceral-to-subcutaneous fat area improves long-term mortality prediction over either measure alone: automated CT-based AI measures with longitudinal follow-up in a large adult cohort.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2026Article
- Correlation between Chinese visceral adiposity index and incidence of hypertension across different blood pressure status: a cohort study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- When Obesity Hits the Kidneys: Sex-Specific Effects of Visceral Adiposity Indices on Diabetic Kidney Disease Risk.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2026Article
- Work engagement and its association with obesity and lifestyle factors in a large working population: a sex-stratified analysis.AIMS public health · 2026Article
- Dynapenic abdominal obesity and the risk of cardiovascular diseases: findings from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Beyond BMI: An opinion on the clinical value of AI-powered CT body composition analysis.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Review
- The flux of energy in critical illness and the obesity paradox.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Association of Sarcopenia and Visceral Obesity with Clinical Outcomes Among Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Metabolic score for visceral fat is correlated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- The association between visceral adiposity index and long-term all-cause mortality shows age-related disparities: a nationwide cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Rapamycin improves satellite cells' autophagy and muscle regeneration during hypercapnia.JCI insight · 2025Article
- Association between visceral adiposity index and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the non-elderly adults.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Introduction: Increased abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) implies an adverse cardio-metabolic profile. We examined the association of abdominal VAT parameters and all-cause mortality risk. Methods: We systematically searched four databases. We performed citations/articles screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment in duplicate and independently (CRD42020205021). Results: We included 12 cohorts, the majority used computed tomography to assess abdominal VAT area. Six cohorts with a mean age ≤ 65 years, examining all-cause mortality risk per increment in VAT area (cm Conclusion: A high abdominal VAT area seems to be associated with increased all-cause mortality in individuals ≤ 65 years, possibly mediated by metabolic complications, and not through an independent effect. This relationship is weaker and may reverse in older individuals, most likely secondary to confounding bias and reverse causality. An individual participant data meta-analysis is needed to confirm our findings, and to define an abdominal VAT area cutoff implying increased mortality risk. Systematic Review Registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=205021, identifier CRD42020205021.
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