What Is the Role of the New Index Relative Fat Mass (RFM) in the Assessment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)?

Mariana Verdelho MachadoSara PolicarpoJ CoutinhoSofia CarvalhanaJorge LeitãoArmando CarvalhoAna P SilvaFrancisco VelascoIsabel MedeirosAna Catarina AlvesMafalda BourbonHelena Cortez-Pinto

Published in: Obesity surgery (2021)

RFM-defined obesity better predicted dyslipidemia and hypertension (though not IR) and adipokine imbalance; however, it did not add value to BMI-defined obesity in predicting NAFLD or liver injury.

Keyphrases

liver injury
drug induced
weight gain
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
weight loss
high fat diet induced
type diabetes
blood pressure
adipose tissue
body mass index
liver fibrosis
fatty acid