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ea0056p604 | Obesity | ECE2018

DXA Body Composition with Visceral Fat analysis improves categorization of the metabolic diseases risk

Gregorio Silvana Di , Horsch Lara , Costamagna Cecilia , Villavicencio Roberto

Introduction: Many people suffered diverse diseases associated to central obesity. Actually the most frequent tool to estimate the abdominal fat is waist perimeter. In the past and the DXA software was adapted to measure fat content in abdominal region but the visceral and subcutaneous fat couldn’t be differentiated.Objective: Evaluate all tools available and establish the most sensible to discriminate the patients whose had risk to suffer metabolic...