Relationship between hydration of lean body mass and visceral adipose tissue. A clinical study of women
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F Armellini1, L Scalfi, M Zamboni
1Institute of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, Italy.
Object:
To study the relationship between hydration of lean body mass and adipose tissue location.
Design:
Cross-sectional, clinical study of visceral adipose tissue area and total body water as a percentage of lean body mass.
Patients:
Seventy-two adult, overweight, women, 52 pre- and 20 post-menopausal (age: 18-72 years, body mass index: 26-52).
Measurements:
Total body water was obtained by electrical impedance measurement; visceral adipose tissue and lean body mass were obtained by computed tomography measurement of visceral adipose tissue area at the level of the 4th-5th lumbar vertebra.
Results:
Visceral adipose tissue was found, by multiple regression analysis, to be the only predictor of the hydration of the lean body mass. The other independent variables: age, menopausal status, body mass index, glucose and insulin both fasting and after glucose load were not able to significantly improve the predictive power.
Conclusion:
Results of this study confirm the existence of a relationship between visceral adipose tissue content and hydration of the lean body mass.