ea0056gp150 | Obesity | ECE2018
Cuatrecasas Guillem
, De Cabo Francisco
, Patrascioiu Ioana
, Coves Maria Jose
, Cuatrecasas Gabriel
, Aranda Gloria
, Aguilar-Soler Gerardo
, March Sonia
, Calbo Marta
, Bretxa Clara
, Balfego Mariona
Introduction: Waist circumference is a validated tool to measure obesity-associated cardiovascular risk factor. However it does not differentiate between superficial and visceral abdominal fat. Ultrasonography has many advantages over TC/DEXA in abdominal fat assessment, specially imaging pre-peritoneal, omental and retroperitoneal fat. Our aims were to validate the diagnostic technique and to observe correlations between different abdominal fat layers with clinical and analyt...