 Body Fat Distribution
"Body Fat Distribution" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Deposits of ADIPOSE TISSUE throughout the body. The pattern of fat deposits in the body regions is an indicator of health status. Excess ABDOMINAL FAT increases health risks more than excess fat around the hips or thighs, therefore, WAIST-HIP RATIO is often used to determine health risks.
| Descriptor ID |
D050218
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.062 G02.111.097.134 G03.180.134 G07.100.049.134
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Fat Distribution- Body Fat Distribution
- Distribution, Body Fat
- Fat Distribution, Body
- Body Fat Patterning
- Fat Patterning, Body
- Patterning, Body Fat
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Fat Distribution" by people in Profiles.
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Sanchez-Gurmaches J, Guertin DA. Adipocyte lineages: tracing back the origins of fat. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Mar; 1842(3):340-51.
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Neacsu O, Cleveland K, Xu H, Tchkonia TT, Kirkland JL, Boney CM. IGF-I attenuates FFA-induced activation of JNK1 phosphorylation and TNFa expression in human subcutaneous preadipocytes. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Sep; 21(9):1843-9.
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Sanchez-Gurmaches J, Hung CM, Sparks CA, Tang Y, Li H, Guertin DA. PTEN loss in the Myf5 lineage redistributes body fat and reveals subsets of white adipocytes that arise from Myf5 precursors. Cell Metab. 2012 Sep 5; 16(3):348-62.
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Dorgan JF, Klifa C, Shepherd JA, Egleston BL, Kwiterovich PO, Himes JH, Gabriel K, Horn L, Snetselaar LG, Stevens VJ, Barton BA, Robson AM, Lasser NL, Deshmukh S, Hylton NM. Height, adiposity and body fat distribution and breast density in young women. Breast Cancer Res. 2012 Jul 13; 14(4):R107.
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Koutsari C, Ali AH, Mundi MS, Jensen MD. Storage of circulating free fatty acid in adipose tissue of postabsorptive humans: quantitative measures and implications for body fat distribution. Diabetes. 2011 Aug; 60(8):2032-40.
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Tybor DJ, Lichtenstein AH, Dallal GE, Daniels SR, Must A. Independent effects of age-related changes in waist circumference and BMI z scores in predicting cardiovascular disease risk factors in a prospective cohort of adolescent females. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Feb; 93(2):392-401.
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Azzoni L, Crowther NJ, Firnhaber C, Foulkes AS, Yin X, Glencross D, Gross R, Kaplan MD, Papasavvas E, Schulze D, Stevens W, van der Merwe T, Waisberg R, Sanne I, Montaner LJ. Association between HIV replication and serum leptin levels: an observational study of a cohort of HIV-1-infected South African women. J Int AIDS Soc. 2010 Sep 07; 13:33.
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Koutsari C, Ali AH, Nair KS, Rizza RA, O'Brien P, Khosla S, Jensen MD. Fatty acid metabolism in the elderly: effects of dehydroepiandrosterone and testosterone replacement in hormonally deficient men and women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Sep; 94(9):3414-23.
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Fox CS, Gona P, Hoffmann U, Porter SA, Salton CJ, Massaro JM, Levy D, Larson MG, D'Agostino RB, O'Donnell CJ, Manning WJ. Pericardial fat, intrathoracic fat, and measures of left ventricular structure and function: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation. 2009 Mar 31; 119(12):1586-91.
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Ferrara CM, Goldberg AP, Nicklas BJ, Sorkin JD, Ryan AS. Sex differences in insulin action and body fat distribution in overweight and obese middle-aged and older men and women. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2008 Aug; 33(4):784-90.
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