The clinical importance of visceral adiposity: a critical review of methods for visceral adipose tissue analysis

A Shuster, M Patlas, JH Pinthus… - The British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
As a result of the rising epidemic of obesity, understanding body fat distribution and its
clinical implications is critical to timely treatment. Visceral adipose tissue is a hormonally …

Lean tissue imaging: a new era for nutritional assessment and intervention

CMM Prado, SB Heymsfield - Journal of Parenteral and Enteral …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Body composition refers to the amount of fat and lean tissues in our body; it is a science that
looks beyond a unit of body weight, accounting for the proportion of different tissues and its …

A practical and precise approach to quantification of body composition in cancer patients using computed tomography images acquired during routine care

M Mourtzakis, CMM Prado, JR Lieffers… - Applied Physiology …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
Human body composition is important in numerous cancer research domains. Our objective
was to evaluate clinically accessible methods to achieve practical and precise measures of …

Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional image

W Shen, M Punyanitya, ZM Wang… - Journal of applied …, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
A single abdominal cross-sectional computerized axial tomography and magnetic
resonance image is often obtained in studies examining adipose tissue (AT) distribution. An …

Intestinal Blastocystis is linked to healthier diets and more favorable cardiometabolic outcomes in 56,989 individuals from 32 countries

E Piperni, LH Nguyen, P Manghi, H Kim, E Pasolli… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Diet impacts human health, influencing body adiposity and the risk of develo**
cardiometabolic diseases. The gut microbiome is a key player in the diet-health axis, but …

Automated abdominal segmentation of CT scans for body composition analysis using deep learning

AD Weston, P Korfiatis, TL Kline, KA Philbrick… - Radiology, 2019 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To develop and evaluate a fully automated algorithm for segmenting the abdomen
from CT to quantify body composition. Materials and Methods For this retrospective study, a …

Resistance exercise reduces liver fat and its mediators in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease independent of weight loss

K Hallsworth, G Fattakhova, KG Hollingsworth… - Gut, 2011 - gut.bmj.com
Background Lifestyle interventions focusing on weight loss remain the cornerstone of non-
alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) management. Despite this, the weight losses achieved …

Adipose tissue and skeletal muscle wasting precede clinical diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

A Babic, MH Rosenthal, TK Sundaresan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with pancreatic cancer commonly develop weight loss and muscle wasting.
Whether adipose tissue and skeletal muscle losses begin before diagnosis and the potential …

Body composition and lung cancer-associated cachexia in TRACERx

O Al-Sawaf, J Weiss, M Skrzypski, JM Lam… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer-associated cachexia (CAC) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in
individuals with non-small cell lung cancer. Key features of CAC include alterations in body …

Skeletal muscle predicts ventilator-free days, ICU-free days, and mortality in elderly ICU patients

LL Moisey, M Mourtzakis, BA Cotton, T Premji… - Critical care, 2013 - Springer
Introduction As the population ages, the number of injured elderly is increasing. We sought
to determine if low skeletal muscle mass adversely affected outcome in elderly patients …