Central obesity in normal-weight people places them at greater risk of death than does overall overweight or obesity in people without the excess abdominal fat, a new study suggests. The startling ...

First, central obesity is associated with an increased accumulation of visceral fat, which is stored around a number of internal organs, such as the liver, pancreas and intestines.

Central Obesity, Heart Failure, and Natriuretic Peptides: It's Complicated. Deborah Brauser. January 21, 2016. BALTIMORE, MD and TRONDHEIM, NORWAY — Two studies published this month in ...

The impact of central obesity on the risk of hospitalization or death due to heart failure in type 1 diabetes: a 16-year cohort study. Cardiovasc Diabetol. Published online July 27, 2021. doi:10. ...

Compared with adults who do not have central obesity, those with central obesity were more likely to experience a fall (adjusted OR = 1.37; 95% CI, 1.01-1.85) and experienced more falls in the ...

(HealthDay News) — Central obesity is associated with increased risk of mortality even in normal-weight individuals, according to a study published online April 24 in the Annals of Internal ...

But it is unclear whether hyperuricemia is a downstream result of central obesity/MetS or if it plays an upstream role in MetS development. Elevated serum uric acid (SUA) has been associated with ...

Central obesity — or obesity around the stomach area — is a little different. In this case, a man with a waist-to-hip ratio above 0.90 and a woman with one above 0.85 is considered to have ...

Adiposity — particularly central obesity — is associated with an increased risk for psoriatic arthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.“Adiposity might be an ...

Study: Association of dietary patterns with general and central obesity among Chinese adults: a longitudinal population-based study. Image Credit: Sorbis/Shutterstock.com. Background. In the past ...

It is generally accepted that central obesity is a core component of metabolic syndrome (MetS). On the other hand, hyperuricemia, the predecessor of gout, has been found to cluster with multiple ...