Waist Circumference as a Tool for Identifying Visceral Fat in Women with Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer

This study aimed to evaluate the association between waist circumference (WC) and imaging measurement of central adiposity according to age group in women with BC. Abdominal adiposity was assessed by WC and VAT, obtained by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Body mass index (BMI) was assessed. The presence of inflammation was investigated by measuring C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels. Multivariate linear regression models were applied to verify the association between WC and VAT. The significance level adopted for all tests was 5%. This study included 112 women with a mean age of 55.5 ± 11.4 years. After adjusted models, WC remained associated with VAT and for every centimeter increase in WC, there was an increase of 3.12 cm2 (CI: 2.40 - 3.85; p < 0.001) in VAT. WC was associated with VAT in women with breast cancer, proving to be a simple, fast, and noninvasive approach that can be used as a proxy to identify visceral fat.PMID:38317427 | DOI:10.1080/01635581.2024.2304691

Source: Nutrition and Cancer - February 6, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Vanusa Fel ício de Souza Mamede Rayne de Almeida Marques Bernab é Larissa Leopoldino da Silva Thalita Gon çalves Santos Luana Gomes Fontana Janine Martins Machado Ben-Hur Albergaria Jose Luiz Marques-Rocha Valdete Regina Guandalini Source Type: research