Open AccessDoes the visceral fat tissue show better correlation with the fatty replacement of the pancreas than with BMI?
Author(s) -
Nilgün Işıksalan Özbülbül,
Mehmet Yurdakul,
Muharrem Tola
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eajm.2010.08
Subject(s) - pancreas , medicine , infiltration (hvac) , visceral fat , adipose tissue , gastroenterology , endocrinology , obesity , insulin resistance , physics , thermodynamics
Obesity is a risk factor of fatty replacement of the pancreas. We aimed to investigate whether there is a better correlation between the visceral fat tissue and the fatty infiltration of the pancreas than with the BMI.
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