A summarized Report of Five Research Reports Regarding Visceral Fat Ratio and its Various Related Factors Using Viscoplastic Energy Model of GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No. 998, VMT #396, 12/15/2023)

Abstract

Gerald C. Hsu

This article presents a summarized report of five individual analyses conducted by the author on visceral fat ratio (VFR) and its related factors:

• • Study 993: Food intake (in grams) vs. VFR, MHR, BMI.
• • Study 994: Daily walking steps vs. VFR, MHR, BMI.
• • Study 995: VFR's impact on Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), food portion, food quality, walking steps, and sleep score.
• • Study 996: VFR's relation to obesity, T2D, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
• • Study 997: VFR's connection to Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), cancer, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Background: Visceral Fat (VF) is the underlying culprit for cardiovascular diseases, type2 diabetes, breast cancer, etc. VF can be estimated at present only by using expensive instruments as Bio Impedance Analyzer (BIA), DEXA scanner, etc. Measurement of Waist-Hip Ratio ( WHR) can be used as a proxy for VF. Hence, the present study was done to assess the role of WHR as appropriate technology for assessment of VF. The aim of this study was to find correlation of Visceral Fat Area (VFA) with (WHR), Waist Circumference (WC) and Body Mass Index (BMI) in young healthy adults.

Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 215 healthy adults over one year in Western Maharashtra. Biospace 720 was used to assess VF. Data was analyzed by using software SPSS version 20.0. In body 720 was used to assess VF of subjects.

Results: Majority 155 (73%) were males and 57 (27%) were females. Nearly half (42% of males, 49% of females) had VFA above cut off value (i.e. 100 cm2) and 42% of males had WHR >0.9 and 56% of females had WHR >0.8. We found a very strong correlation between VFA and WHR (r = 0.936, p < 0.05) among males and females (r = 0.920, p < 0.05) and correlation between WC and BMI with VFA (r = 0.739, r = 0.758) for males, (r = 0.774, r = 0.605) for females was modest.

Conclusion: There is a strong correlation between VF and WHR. Measurement of WHR is simple, handy, and inexpensive tool which can be used as a surrogate to measure VF.”

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