Study Reveals Characteristics of Belly Fat and Heart Risk
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Radiation can be applied on a large scale to know the quality of fat, whatever its location, helping to "personalize the prevention and treatment of people with obesity".
Two people with the same amount of fat can have completely different risks, reveals a new research of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
The team analyzed tests of 1,736 adults without coronary disease known to study subcutaneous fat, i.e., the one that is just below the skin and that can be pinched, as well as visceral fat, which involves the organs within the abdomen, and total abdominal fat.
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An investigation by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) concluded that the characteristics of belly fat, and not only its quantity and location, can explain heart artery diseases, has been released today.
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