Ethnic Differences in Body Fat Deposition and Liver Fat Content in Two UK-Based Cohorts.

Wareed AlenainiJames R C ParkinsonJohn P McCarthyAnthony P GoldstoneHenry R WilmanRajarshi BanerjeeHanieh YaghootkarJimmy D BellE Louise Thomas

Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2020)

Our data, consistent across two independent UK-based cohorts, present a limited number of ethnic differences in the distribution of body fat depots associated with metabolic disease. These results suggest that the ethnic variation in susceptibility to features of the metabolic syndrome may not arise from differences in body fat.

Keyphrases

metabolic syndrome
adipose tissue
cross sectional
electronic health record
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uric acid
machine learning
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