Sonography detection of small intra-abdominal fat variations.

摘要: The aim of this study was to check the reliability sonography in measuring small variations quantities subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat. Twenty-six obese women (BMI 39 +/- 6) underwent a 15 day very low calorie diet. included, both before after diet, computed tomography measurements total (AT), visceral (VAT) (SAT) adipose tissue areas, visceral/subcutaneous area ratio (V/S), waist/hip circumference (W/H), ultrasound abdominal skin-muscle thickness, muscle-aorta thickness intra-abdominal/subcutaneous ratio. Weight reduction from 101 17 95 16 kg (P less than 0.001). W/H dropped 0.83 0.06 0.82 0.07 (n.s.). VAT 158 72 134 61 cm2 0.005), SAT 572 151 566 164 (n.s.) V/S 0.29 0.15 0.25 0.11 0.01). Abdominal fat decreased 36 8 35 10 mm (n.s.), 25 20 0.001) 1.1 0.7 0.8 0.6 0.005). measurement accurately identified variations. could not evaluate loss, because simultaneous decreases waist hip circumferences. Ultrasound able measure reductions