Association between ratio indexes of body composition phenotypes and metabolic risk in Italian adults

Abstract

(2016) Association between ratio indexes of body composition phenotypes and metabolic risk in Italian adults. Clinical Obesity,6 (6 Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) What is already known about this subject ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RATIO-INDEXES OF BODY COMPOSITION PHENOTYPES AND METABOLIC RISK IN ITALIAN ADULTS• Sarcopenic obesity, defined as the concomitant presence of high adiposity and low muscle mass, has been proposed as a novel body composition phenotype• Several definitions have been proposed to define sarcopenic obesity with implications for prevalence estimates and disease risk predictions• Ratio models of body composition phenotypes have been proposed to improve disease risk prediction What this study adds• Compare for the first time two independent ratio indexes for the load-capacity model• There is no real advantage in using either VAT:FFMI or FMI:FFMI ratios as a predictor of metabolic risk 3 AbstractBackground/Objectives: The ratio between fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) has been used to

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