Ergo-anthropometrics: joining fit to fat to predict cardiovascular risk.

摘要

It is well known that fat is a metabolically active endocrine organ involved in production of numerous prothrombotic and proinfl ammatory substances. Excess intra-abdominal adiposity in particular is linked to multiple cardiometabolic risk factors. However, the precise relationship between obesity and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is the subject of debate, due to obesity’s limited predictive value for such risk, the wide range of confounding co-morbidities among obese persons, and limitations to clinical assessment of obesity. Various anthropometric methods have been used as clinical measurements for obesity: the most universally accepted today are body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio.