Visceral adiposity index and longitudinal risk of incident metabolic syndrome: Korean genome and epidemiology study (KoGES).

In conclusion, elevated VAI was significantly associated with the increased long-term risk of MetS. VAI is a useful supplementary to classic anthropometric indices in screening high risk group of MetS. PMID: 31611471 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Endocrine Journal - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Endocr J Source Type: research