Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is well known fact that central lipid stores are related to glucose metabolism impairment. Standard anthropologic methods for measuring lipid stores centralisation are waist, waist to hip ratio and waist to height ratio. Still, often these markers fail to relate to difference in glucose metabolism between equally obese patients.Method: We analysed relation between waist line radius and subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness, determent wit...