RESEARCH ARTICLE
Comparison of Visceral Fat Measures with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Healthy Adults Kyoungjune Pak1☯, Seung Hun Lee2☯, Jeong Gyu Lee2, Ju Won Seok3‡, In Joo Kim1‡* 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, 2 Department of Family Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, 3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work. *
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Abstract
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Pak K, Lee SH, Lee JG, Seok JW, Kim IJ (2016) Comparison of Visceral Fat Measures with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Healthy Adults. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153031. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0153031 Editor: Qinghua Sun, The Ohio State University, UNITED STATES Received: November 19, 2015 Accepted: March 22, 2016
We aimed to evaluate the associations of visceral adiposity with cardiometabolic risk factors in normal subjects with integrated 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT). A total of 58 normal subjects who underwent 18FFDG PET/CT scan for cancer screening were included in this study. Volume and average Hounsfield unit (HU) of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) was measured from CT components of integrated PET/CT. Standardized uptake values (SUVmax) of liver, spleen, lumbar spine and ascending aorta (AA) were measured from PET components of integrated PET/CT. Body mass index (coefficient 78.25, p = 0.0259), glucose (37.62, p
