Quantitative Assessment of Visceral Obesity and Postoperative Colon Cancer Outcomes.

Oluwatobi O OzoyaErin M SiegelThejal SrikumarAmanda M BloomerAmanda DeRenzisDavid Shibata

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2017)

Elevated visceral obesity quantified by CT is associated with the presence of key metabolic comorbidities and increased postoperative morbidity and may be superior to BMI for risk stratification.

Keyphrases

insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
weight gain
high fat diet induced
patients undergoing
weight loss
type diabetes
adipose tissue
skeletal muscle
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
image quality
magnetic resonance imaging
physical activity