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Visceral adiposity
Anthropometric & Body CompositionPhysical parameterriskmodifiable
24
evidence score
Also known as: visceral adipose, visceral adipose tissue, visceral fat
PREVENT status
Not a PREVENT input variable.
Causal support
observational only
Score components
lit volume: 19.5meta-analyses: 0trials: 4.8genetic: 0MR bonus:
References (89)
0 meta-analyses / systematic reviews- Effects of the Mediterranean Diet on the Components of Metabolic Syndrome Concerning the Cardiometabolic Risk. — Nutrients 2025 · PMID 39861488
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- Epicardial Fat in Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction: Novel Insights and Future Perspectives. — Current heart failure reports 2025 · PMID 40106059
- The role of epicardial adipose tissue remodelling in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. — Cardiovascular research 2025 · PMID 40238568
- Epicardial Fat Thickness as a Marker of Coronary Artery Disease in Diabetics: A Single Center Study. — Clinical cardiology 2025 · PMID 40616590
- Epicardial fat tissue in metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity: culprit or bystander? — Minerva endocrinology 2025 · PMID 40635457
- Body roundness index (BRI) and obesity-related anthropometrics: Relationship to visceral adiposity, insulin sensitivity index and cardiometabolic risk. — Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 2025 · PMID 40654034
- The Visceral Adiposity Index and Its Usefulness in the Prediction of Cardiometabolic Disorders. — Nutrients 2025 · PMID 40732999
- Association Between Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Outcomes : A Prospective Cohort Study. — Annals of internal medicine 2025 · PMID 41021919
- Epicardial Fat Inflammation and GLP-1/GIP Receptor Analogs: Are we Shifting our Perspective? — Current cardiology reports 2025 · PMID 41307857
- Association between changes in Chinese visceral adiposity index and cardiovascular disease among middle-aged and older Chinese adults. — Scientific reports 2025 · PMID 41353457
- Evaluation of the PREVENT risk assessment tool and visceral adiposity: Insights from the UK Biobank. — Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2025 · PMID 41380927
- Cardiovascular Significance and Genetics of Epicardial and Pericardial Adiposity. — JAMA cardiology 2024 · PMID 38477908
- Visceral-to-peripheral adiposity ratio: a critical determinant of sex and ethnic differences in cardiovascular risks among Asian Indians and African Creoles in Mauritius. — International journal of obesity (2005) 2024 · PMID 38615158
- Chinese visceral adiposity index and its transition patterns: impact on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in a national cohort study. — Lipids in health and disease 2024 · PMID 38685072
- Single-Nucleus Transcriptomic Atlas of Human Pericoronary Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Normal and Pathological Conditions. — Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2024 · PMID 38813696
- Impact of a Mediterranean-Inspired Diet on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — Nutrients 2024 · PMID 39125324
- Epicardial and liver fat implications in albuminuria: a retrospective study. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2024 · PMID 39175063
- Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Light-Intensity Physical Activity on Inflammatory and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Secondary Outcome Analyses of the SED-ACT Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. — Biomolecules 2024 · PMID 39199416
- MiRNA-132/212 encapsulated by adipose tissue-derived exosomes worsen atherosclerosis progression. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2024 · PMID 39252021
- Visceral and subcutaneous adiposity and cardiovascular disease: Unravelling associations and prognostic value. — Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 2024 · PMID 39313919
- Cardio-Lipotoxicity of Epicardial Adipose Tissue. — Biomolecules 2024 · PMID 39595641
- Partitioned polygenic risk scores identify distinct types of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. — Nature medicine 2024 · PMID 39653778
- Increased epicardial adipose tissue is associated with left ventricular reverse remodeling in dilated cardiomyopathy. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2024 · PMID 39696268
- Visceral fat distribution: Interracial studies. — Advances in clinical chemistry 2024 · PMID 39818438
- Adiposity-associated atrial fibrillation: molecular determinants, mechanisms, and clinical significance. — Cardiovascular research 2023 · PMID 35689487
- Epicardial fat links obesity to cardiovascular diseases. — Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2023 · PMID 37105279
- Accuracy of visceral adiposity indices and lipid accumulation products in the identification of adults at high cardiovascular risk. — Clinica e investigacion en arteriosclerosis : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Arteriosclerosis 2023 · PMID 37121826
- Yoga practice can reduce metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk in climacteric women. — Journal of behavioral medicine 2023 · PMID 37294473
- Physiology of sedentary behavior. — Physiological reviews 2023 · PMID 37326297
- Visceral fat and cardiometabolic future in children and adolescents: a critical update. — Pediatric research 2023 · PMID 37402844
- Influence of visceral adiposity on cardiovascular risk in patients with systemic sclerosis. — Rheumatology international 2023 · PMID 37684492
- Associations of Visceral Adipose Tissue, Circulating Protein Biomarkers, and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis — Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2022 · PMID 35186940
- Browning Epicardial Adipose Tissue: Friend or Foe? — Cells 2022 · PMID 35326442
- Coronary microvascular function and visceral adiposity in patients with normal body weight and type 2 diabetes. — Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2022 · PMID 35357083
- Occupational and Leisure Physical Activity on Cardiovascular Risk and Body Composition Among Courier Workers. — Biological research for nursing 2022 · PMID 35613699
- Arterial Stiffness as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor After Successful Kidney Transplantation in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients. — Transplantation proceedings 2022 · PMID 36064673
- Cellular cross talk between epicardial fat and cardiovascular risk. — Journal of basic and clinical physiology and pharmacology 2022 · PMID 36220013
- Visceral adiposity indices and cardiometabolic risk markers in patients with hypertension. — Archives of endocrinology and metabolism 2022 · PMID 36468922
- The visceral adiposity index and lipid accumulation product as predictors of cardiovascular events in normal weight subjects. — Clinical nutrition ESPEN 2022 · PMID 36513453
- Obesity, Adipose Tissue and Vascular Dysfunction. — Circulation research 2021 · PMID 33793327
- Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association — Circulation 2021 · PMID 33882682
- Physical activity and metabolic syndrome severity among older adults at cardiovascular risk: 1-Year trends. — Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD 2021 · PMID 34366176
- Serum endothelin-1 level positively correlates with waist and hip circumferences in stable coronary artery disease patients. — Reviews in cardiovascular medicine 2021 · PMID 34565091
- Association between combat-related traumatic injury and cardiovascular risk. — Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2021 · PMID 34824088
- Metabolically Healthy Obesity (MHO) vs. Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity (MUO) Phenotypes in PCOS: Association with Endocrine-Metabolic Profile, Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, and Body Composition. — Nutrients 2021 · PMID 34836180
- Association of Region-Specific Cardiac Adiposity With Dysglycemia and New-Onset Diabetes. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2021 · PMID 34889106
- Association between coronary atherosclerosis and visceral adiposity index. — Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD 2020 · PMID 32127334
- Drug Targeting of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Inhibits Metabolic Dysfunction and Atherosclerosis in a Murine Model of Metabolic Syndrome. — Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2020 · PMID 32268785
- Metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors in Klinefelter syndrome. — American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics 2020 · PMID 32452627
- Associations between abdominal obesity indices and diabetic complications: Chinese visceral adiposity index and neck circumference. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2020 · PMID 32736628
- Cardiovascular-related proteins and the abdominal visceral to subcutaneous adipose tissue ratio. — Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD 2020 · PMID 33153859
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- Obesity, visceral adiposity and carotid atherosclerosis. — Journal of diabetes and its complications 2019 · PMID 30770289
- Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity. — Current obesity reports 2019 · PMID 31144261
- Contribution of genetics to visceral adiposity and its relation to cardiovascular and metabolic disease. — Nature medicine 2019 · PMID 31501611
- Epicardial Adipose Tissue May Mediate Deleterious Effects of Obesity and Inflammation on the Myocardium. — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2018 · PMID 29773163
- Obesity, Visceral Fat, and Hypertension-Related Complications. — Metabolic syndrome and related disorders 2018 · PMID 30183499
- Androgens and the Regulation of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution in Humans. — Comprehensive Physiology 2018 · PMID 30215860
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its relationship with cardiovascular disease and other extrahepatic diseases. — Gut 2017 · PMID 28314735
- Visceral adiposity index and 10-year cardiovascular disease incidence: The ATTICA study. — Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD 2017 · PMID 28851556
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- Visceral adiposopathy: a vascular perspective. — Hormone molecular biology and clinical investigation 2015 · PMID 25781557
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- Association of cystatin C with measures of obesity and its impact on cardiovascular events among healthy US adults. — Metabolic syndrome and related disorders 2014 · PMID 25118891
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- Coronary heart disease and body fat distribution. — Current atherosclerosis reports 2010 · PMID 20425248
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- Relation of C-reactive protein to abdominal adiposity. — The American journal of cardiology 2010 · PMID 20609648
- Pericardial Adipose Tissue Determined by Dual Source CT Is a Risk Factor for Coronary Atherosclerosis — Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2009 · PMID 19229071
- Pathogenic potential of adipose tissue and metabolic consequences of adipocyte hypertrophy and increased visceral adiposity. — Expert review of cardiovascular therapy 2008 · PMID 18327995
- Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity, diabetes, and vascular diseases — European Heart Journal 2008 · PMID 18775919
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- Adiposity and cardiovascular disorders: disturbance of the regulatory system consisting of humoral and neuronal signals. — Circulation research 2007 · PMID 17615379
- Visceral and subcutaneous adiposity: are both potential therapeutic targets for tackling the metabolic syndrome? — Current pharmaceutical design 2007 · PMID 17627548
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Clinical trials (2)
| NCT | Title | Status | Type | Interventions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCT05032001 | ORAL ANTIDIABETICS EFFECT ON VISCERAL FAT MEASURED BY BIOIMPEDANCE IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS. Pilot Study. | UNKNOWN | INTERVENTIONAL | Biguanide, DPP4 inhibitors, SGLT2 inhibitors |
| NCT01834300 | The Effects of Exercise Training on Visceral Fat, Insulin Sensitivity, Β-cell Function and Triglyceride Kinetics in Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). | COMPLETED | INTERVENTIONAL | Unsupervised exercise training, Supervised exercise training |
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