Anthropometric indices as surrogates for estimating abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue: A meta-analysis with 16, 129 participants. (September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ping, Zhiguang; Pei, Xiaoting; Xia, Peige; Chen, Yuansi; Guo, Rui; Hu, Chenxi; Imam, Mustapha Umar; Chen, Yanzi; Sun, Panpan; Liu, Li
• Is Part Of: Diabetes research and clinical practice. Volume 143(2018)
• Page Start: 310
• Page End: 319
• Publication Date: 2018-09
• Subjects: Visceral adipose tissue -- Subcutaneous adipose tissue -- Waist circumference -- Body mass index -- Meta-analysis; Diabetes -- Periodicals; Diabetes Mellitus -- Periodicals; 616.462
• DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2018.08.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0168-8227

Abstract

Abstract: Aim: To seek anthropometric indices that estimate visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue (VAT and SAT) by meta-analysis and comparing the predictive efficacy based on different characteristics of participants. Methods: PubMed, PubMed Central, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang databases were searched for publications containing correlation coefficients of VAT and/or SAT with waist circumference (WC) and/or body mass index (BMI). The overall or subgroup pooled results were analyzed by meta and metafor packages of R with random effects model. MedCalc software was used to compare the correlation coefficients between groups. Results: Twenty-nine publications were included in this meta-analysis. The correlation coefficients of VAT-WC, VAT-BMI, SAT-WC and SAT-BMI for total studies were between 0.640 and 0.785. The correlation of VAT with WC was larger than that with BMI ( Z = 11.664, P < 0.001). Meanwhile, the correlation coefficients of VAT-WC were statistically different among different age groups, areas, ethnicities, body shapes, scanning levels, units and instruments of measuring VAT ( P < 0.05). The overall correlation of SAT with BMI was larger than that with WC ( Z = 3.805, P < 0.001). The subgroups' correlation coefficients of SAT-BMI showed statistical differences between genders, age groups, areas, ethnicities, body shapes, scanning levels, units (cm 2 and cm 3 ) and instruments of measuring SAT ( P < 0.05). Conclusions: WC may be a common and simple surrogate for estimating VAT, and BMI for SAT, especially in Europeans, but not in the aged people.