Anthropometric cutoffs and associations with visceral adiposity and metabolic biomarkers after spinal cord injury.

Ryan M SumrellThomas E NightingaleLiron S McCauleyAshraf S Gorgey

Published in: PloS one (2018)

Seated/supine circumferences are associated with both central adiposity and biomarkers of cardiometabolic disease risk in persons with SCI. Population-specific cutoffs are proposed herein to identify central adiposity and potential cardiometabolic disease risk after SCI.

Keyphrases

insulin resistance
spinal cord injury
weight gain
adipose tissue
body composition
type diabetes
metabolic syndrome
skeletal muscle
body mass index
weight loss
breast cancer risk