Is visceral obesity the cause of the metabolic syndrome?

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Clinical usefulness of lipid ratios, visceral adiposity indicators, and the triglycerides and glucose index as risk markers of insulin resistance. Cardiovasc Diabetol (2014) 1.09

The normal limits, subclinical significance, related metabolic derangements and distinct biological effects of body site-specific adiposity in relatively healthy population. PLoS One (2013) 1.06

Associations between smoking, components of metabolic syndrome and lipoprotein particle size. BMC Med (2013) 1.06

Metabolic remodeling of human skeletal myocytes by cocultured adipocytes depends on the lipolytic state of the system. Diabetes (2011) 1.05

Prognostic significance of the complex "Visceral Adiposity Index" vs. simple anthropometric measures: Tehran lipid and glucose study. Cardiovasc Diabetol (2012) 1.04

Comparison of visceral fat and liver fat as risk factors of metabolic syndrome. J Korean Med Sci (2012) 1.04

Cut-off points of the visceral adiposity index (VAI) identifying a visceral adipose dysfunction associated with cardiometabolic risk in a Caucasian Sicilian population. Lipids Health Dis (2011) 1.04

Predictive performance of the visceral adiposity index for a visceral adiposity-related risk: type 2 diabetes. Lipids Health Dis (2011) 1.02

Individual and area-based indicators of acculturation and the metabolic syndrome among low-income Mexican American women living in a border region. Am J Public Health (2008) 1.01

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Relationship of abdominal obesity with alcohol consumption at population scale. Eur J Nutr (2007) 0.99

Diet-induced obesity increases NF-kappaB signaling in reporter mice. Genes Nutr (2009) 0.98

The L-α-lysophosphatidylinositol/GPR55 system and its potential role in human obesity. Diabetes (2011) 0.96

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor: critical role in obesity, insulin resistance, and associated comorbidities. Mediators Inflamm (2010) 0.96

Large size cells in the visceral adipose depot predict insulin resistance in the canine model. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2011) 0.96

Obesity, waist size and prevalence of current asthma in the California Teachers Study cohort. Thorax (2009) 0.95

Relative skeletal muscle mass is associated with development of metabolic syndrome. Diabetes Metab J (2013) 0.94

Genotype x adiposity interaction linkage analyses reveal a locus on chromosome 1 for lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2, a marker of inflammation and oxidative stress. Am J Hum Genet (2006) 0.93

Stronger associations of sagittal abdominal diameter with atherogenic lipoprotein subfractions than waist circumference in middle-aged US white and Japanese men. Metabolism (2010) 0.92

Visceral adiposity index (VAI) is predictive of an altered adipokine profile in patients with type 2 diabetes. PLoS One (2014) 0.91

Echocardiographic assessment of epicardial adipose tissue--a marker of visceral adiposity. Mcgill J Med (2007) 0.91

Do obese but metabolically normal women differ in intra-abdominal fat and physical activity levels from those with the expected metabolic abnormalities? A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.89

Epigenetic regulation of depot-specific gene expression in adipose tissue. PLoS One (2013) 0.89

Adipose lineage specification of bone marrow-derived myeloid cells. Adipocyte (2012) 0.88

Risk of type 2 diabetes according to traditional and emerging anthropometric indices in Spain, a Mediterranean country with high prevalence of obesity: results from a large-scale prospective cohort study. BMC Endocr Disord (2013) 0.87

Serum n-6 fatty acids and lipoprotein subclasses in middle-aged men: the population-based cross-sectional ERA-JUMP study. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 0.87

Acute exercise increases adiponectin levels in abdominally obese men. J Nutr Metab (2012) 0.86

Visceral adiposity in young patients with coronary artery disease-a case control study. Indian Heart J (2012) 0.86

De novo generation of adipocytes from circulating progenitor cells in mouse and human adipose tissue. FASEB J (2015) 0.85

Differential screening identifies transcripts with depot-dependent expression in white adipose tissues. BMC Genomics (2008) 0.85

The genetic pleiotropy of musculoskeletal aging. Front Physiol (2012) 0.85

Differential association of adiposity measures with heart rate variability measures in Koreans. Yonsei Med J (2013) 0.83

Ultrasound estimates of visceral and subcutaneous-abdominal adipose tissues in infancy. J Obes (2013) 0.83

Mulberry ( sang shèn zǐ) and its bioactive compounds, the chemoprevention effects and molecular mechanisms in vitro and in vivo. J Tradit Complement Med (2013) 0.82

Obesity accelerates T cell senescence in murine visceral adipose tissue. J Clin Invest (2016) 0.82

Ingestion of Carbohydrate-Rich Supplements during Gestation Programs Insulin and Leptin Resistance but not Body Weight Gain in Adult Rat Offspring. Front Physiol (2012) 0.82

Differences emerge in visceral adipose tissue accumulation after selection for innate cardiovascular fitness. Int J Obes (Lond) (2010) 0.82

Metabolic syndrome, sarcopenia and role of sex and age: cross-sectional analysis of Kashiwa cohort study. PLoS One (2014) 0.82

Visceral adipose tissue area is associated with coronary stenosis and noncalcified plaques. Int J Obes (Lond) (2013) 0.82

Visceral obesity determined by CT scan and outcomes after colorectal surgery; a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Colorectal Dis (2015) 0.82

Systematic review on the association of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents with cardio-metabolic risk factors. J Res Med Sci (2015) 0.81

Visceral Fat Mass Has Stronger Associations with Diabetes and Prediabetes than Other Anthropometric Obesity Indicators among Korean Adults. Yonsei Med J (2016) 0.80

Genetic control of lipids in the mouse cross DU6i x DBA/2. Mamm Genome (2007) 0.80

Clinical Scenario of the Metabolic Syndrome. Visc Med (2016) 0.80

Combined impact of cardiorespiratory fitness and visceral adiposity on metabolic syndrome in overweight and obese adults in Korea. PLoS One (2014) 0.79

Association of complete blood cell counts with metabolic syndrome in an elderly population. BMC Geriatr (2016) 0.79

Head fat is a novel method of measuring metabolic disorder in Chinese obese patients. Lipids Health Dis (2014) 0.79

Pregnancy as a window to future health: Excessive gestational weight gain and obesity. Semin Perinatol (2015) 0.79

The SHP-1 protein tyrosine phosphatase negatively modulates Akt signaling in the ghrelin/GHSR1a system. Mol Biol Cell (2011) 0.79

Impact of diet, exercise end diet combined with exercise programs on plasma lipoprotein and adiponectin levels in obese girls. J Sports Sci Med (2008) 0.78

Predictive value of retroperitoneal fat area measurement for detecting metabolic syndrome in patients undergoing adrenalectomy. World J Surg (2011) 0.78

Effect of exercise on abdominal fat loss in men and women with and without type 2 diabetes. BMJ Open (2013) 0.78

Intermuscular and subcutaneous adipose tissue distributions differ in HIV+ versus HIV-men and women. Int J Body Compos Res (2009) 0.77

Age-related inflammation and insulin resistance: a review of their intricate interdependency. Arch Pharm Res (2014) 0.77

The Associations of Indices of Obesity with Lipoprotein Subfractions in Japanese American, African American and Korean Men. Glob Heart (2013) 0.77

Abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat thickness in newborns: correlation with anthropometric and metabolic profile. J Perinatol (2014) 0.77

Ultrasound-assessed perirenal fat is related to increased ophthalmic artery resistance index in HIV-1 patients. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2010) 0.77

Metabolic syndrome induces changes in KATP-channels and calcium currents in pancreatic β-cells. Islets (2012) 0.77

Distribution curve of waist-to-height ratio and its association with blood pressure among children and adolescents: study in a large population in an eastern coastal province, China. Eur J Pediatr (2014) 0.76

High Intensity Resistance Training Methods with and without Protein Supplementation to Fight Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle-Aged Males: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Biomed Res Int (2016) 0.76

Effect of Resistance Training and Caloric Restriction on the Metabolic Syndrome. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2016) 0.76

Determination of body size measures and blood pressure levels among children. J Pediatr (Rio J) (2013) 0.76

Pregnancy: An Underutilized Window of Opportunity to Improve Long-term Maternal and Infant Health-An Appeal for Continuous Family Care and Interdisciplinary Communication. Front Pediatr (2017) 0.75

Association of visceral adiposity with increased intrarenal artery resistive index in HIV-1-infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. Indian J Sex Transm Dis (2010) 0.75

Adipose tissue dysfunction increases fatty liver association with pre diabetes and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetol Metab Syndr (2016) 0.75

Effects of visceral adiposity on glycerol pathways in gluconeogenesis. Metabolism (2016) 0.75

Shared genetic variance between obesity and white matter integrity in Mexican Americans. Front Genet (2015) 0.75

Distribution and Impact of the Visceral Fat Area in Patients With Colorectal Cancer. Ann Coloproctol (2016) 0.75

Waist related anthropometric measures - simple and useful predictors of coronary artery disease in women. Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol (2014) 0.75

Evaluation oF Epicardial Fat and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Obese Children. Iran J Pediatr (2016) 0.75

Reference Values of Skeletal Muscle Mass for Korean Children and Adolescents Using Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2011. PLoS One (2016) 0.75

Neural correlates of taste and pleasantness evaluation in the metabolic syndrome. Brain Res (2015) 0.75

Association of Dietary Proportions of Macronutrients with Visceral Adiposity Index: Non-Substitution and Iso-Energetic Substitution Models in a Prospective Study. Nutrients (2015) 0.75

Update on Prepregnancy Maternal Obesity: Birth Defects and Childhood Outcomes. J Pediatr Genet (2015) 0.75

Cord blood DNA methylation and adiposity measures in early and mid-childhood. Clin Epigenetics (2017) 0.75

Hematopoietic-to-mesenchymal transition of adipose tissue macrophages is regulated by integrin β1 and fabricated fibrin matrices. Adipocyte (2017) 0.75

Waist circumference, trunk and visceral fat cutoff values for detecting hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance in children: the Healthy Growth Study. Eur J Nutr (2015) 0.75

Obesity, Visceral Adipose Tissue, and Cognitive Function in Childhood. J Pediatr (2017) 0.75

Association of Body Shape Index (ABSI) with cardio-metabolic risk factors: A cross-sectional study of 6081 Caucasian adults. PLoS One (2017) 0.75

Letter: Utility of the Visceral Adiposity Index and Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype for Predicting Incident Hypertension (Endocrinol Metab 2017;32:221-9, Mohsen Janghorbani et al.). Endocrinol Metab (Seoul) (2017) 0.75

Active subfractions of Abelmoschus esculentus substantially prevent free fatty acid-induced β cell apoptosis via inhibiting dipeptidyl peptidase-4. PLoS One (2017) 0.75