Multiple-slice magnetic resonance imaging can detect visceral adipose tissue reduction more accurately than single-slice imaging

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1351-1355

  So, R ^a,b   Sasai, H ^c   Matsuo, T ^c   Tsujimoto, T ^a   Eto, M ^a   Saotome, K ^a   Tanaka, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; multiple slice image; single slice image; weight loss detecting

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ACCURACY; ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; EFFECT SIZE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JOGGING; MULTIPLE SLICE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE SLICE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DIET, REDUCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84870808826     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2012.147     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bergman RN, Kim SP, Catalano KJ, Hsu IR, Chiu JD, Kabir M et al. Why visceral fat is bad: mechanisms of the metabolic syndrome. Obesity 2006; 14: 16S-19S.
2. Caterson ID, Hubbard V, Bray GA, Grunstein R, Hansen BC, Hong YL et al. Prevention conference VII-Obesity, a worldwide epidemic related to heart disease and stroke-Group III: worldwide comorbidities of obesity. Circulation 2004; 110: E476-E483.
3. Ross R, Shaw KD, Martel Y, Deguise J, Avruch L. Adipose-tissue distribution measured by magnetic-resonance-imaging in obese women. Am J Clin Nutr 1993; 57: 470-475.
4. Shen W, Punyanitya M, Wang ZM, Gallagher D, St-Onge MP, Albu J et al. Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional image. J Appl Physiol 2004; 97: 2333-2338.
5. Kvist H, Chowdhury B, Grangard U, Tylen U, Sjostrom L. Total and visceral adiposetissue volumes derived from measurements with computed-tomography in adult men and women. Am J Clin Nutr 1988; 48: 1351-1361.
6. Abate N, Garg A, Coleman R, Grundy SM, Peshock RM. Prediction of total subcutaneo-us abdominal, intraperitoneal, and retroperitoneal adipose tissue masses in men by a single axial magnetic resonance imaging slice. Am J Clin Nutr 1997; 65: 403-408.
7. Han TS, Kelly IE, Walsh K, Greene RME, Lean MEJ. Relationship between volumes and areas from single transverse scans of intra-abdominal fat measured by magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Obes 1997; 21: 1161-1166.
8. Greenfield JR, Samaras K, Chisholm DJ, Campbell LV. Regional intra-subject variability in abdominal adiposity limits usefulness of computed tomography. Int J Obes 2002; 10: 260-265.
9. Thomas EL, Bell JD. Influence of undersampling on magnetic resonance imaging measurements of intra-abdominal adipose tissue. Int J Obes 2003; 27: 211-218.
10. So R, Sasai H, Matsuo T, Tsujimoto T, Eto M, Saotome K et al. Visceral adipose tissue volume estimated at imaging sites 5-6 cm above L4-L5 is optimal for predicting cardiovascular risk factors in obese Japanese men. Tohoku J Exp Med 2012; 227: 297-305.
11. So R, Matsuo T, Sasai H, Eto M, Tsujimoto T, Saotome K et al. Best single-slice measurement site for estimating visceral adipose tissue volume after weight loss in obese, Japanese men. Nutr Metab (Lond) 2012; 9: 56.
12. The Examination Committee of Criteria for 'Obesity Disease' in Japan; Japan Society for the Study of Obesity. New criteria for 'obesity disease' in Japan. Circ J 2002; 66: 987-992.
13. Kagawa A. The Four-Food-Group Point Method. J Kagawa Nutrition University 1983; 14: 5-12 (in Japanese).
14. Kumahara H, Schutz Y, Ayabe M, Yoshioka M, Yoshitake Y, Shindo M et al. The use of uniaxial accelerometry for the assessment of physical-activity- related energy expenditure: a validation study against whole-body indirect calorimetry. Br J Nutr 2004; 91: 235-243.
15. Shen W, Chen J. Application of imaging and other noninvasive techniques in determining adipose tissue mass. Methods Mol Biol 2008; 456: 39-54.
16. Faul F, Erdfelder E, Lang AG, Buchner A. G*Power 3: a flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behav Res Methods 2007; 39: 175-191.
17. Cohen J. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. 2nd edn. Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ, USA, 1988; 109-227.
18. Kanaley JA, Giannopoulou I, Ploutz-Snyder LL. Regional differences in abdominal fat loss. Int J Obes 2007; 31: 147-152.
19. Lee S, Janssen I, Ross R. Interindividual variation in abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue: influence of measurement site. J Appl Physiol 2004; 97: 948-954.
20. Idoate F, Ibanez J, Gorostiaga EM, Garcia-Unciti M, Martinez-Labari C, Izquierdo M. Weight-loss diet alone or combined with resistance training induces different regional visceral fat changes in obese women. Int J Obes 2011; 35: 700-713.