Min-Hui Cui1, Jong Hee Hwang1,
Vlad Tomuta1, Daniel T. Stein1
1Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, NY, United States
Fifty-eight
non-diabetic subjects with a wide range of BMI were studied to evaluate the
regional differences of SAT and VAT distribution and the correlations of them
with intrahepatic lipid, plasma triglyceride, glucose and FFA levels. Both
lean and overweight/obese subjects have most SAT in lower abdomen. However,
lean subjects have more VAT while overweight/obese subjects have less VAT in
lower abdomen. The relationships between SAT and VAT from different abdominal
regions in the lean and overweight/obese subjects with IHL, TG and glucose
are also different. Thus conclusions based on one specific AT region should
be interpreted with cautions.