Evaluation of whole-abdominal fat volume by 700-slice CT scanning and comparison with the umbilical fat area anthropometric indices

The fat area at the umbilical region on CT scans is widely used to identify visceral obesity. However, whether it precisely represents the abdominal visceral fat volume is uncertain, because of technical difficulty in evaluating whole-abdominal visceral fat volume. In this study, we compared the whole-abdominal visceral fat and subcutaneous fat volumes with the visceral fat area at the umbilical region and anthropometric indices. The study...