Revista ABCd (São Paulo). 05 Jan, 2022

HELICAL COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY CAN MEASURE SUBCUTANEOUS, VISCERAL AND TOTAL FAT AREAS?

Guilherme WENDLER
Paulo Afonso Nunes NASSIF
Osvaldo MALAFAIA
Eduardo WENDLER
Ilana Barrichello Torres WENDLER
Luiza Marcelli CIRPIANI
DOI: 10.1590/0102-672020210003e1591

Background:

Abdominal obesity or android obesity, that is, the increase in adipose tissue in the abdominal region, is considered a risk factor for several morbidities. Different ways of quantifying it have been proposed, one method is the measurement of the abdominal fat area by computed tomography.

Aim:

To establish correspondence between the groups defined by degree of obesity in relation to the total, subcutaneous and visceral fat area.

Methods:

Cross-sectional observational study carried out through the analysis of tomographic examinations. Horos v3.3.5 medical image visualization software was used, with abdominal tomography in a single cut including the L4 vertebral body and the umbilical scar, to obtain the areas of total, visceral and subcutaneous fat.

Results:

Of the 40 patients, 10 had grade II obesity, 23 grade III and 7 superobese. The amount of total fat showed an increase in relation to the degree of obesity. Visceral fat did not show significant differences between the degrees of obesity, but the data showed a lower average in the group of obesity grade II. The area of subcutaneous fat, as well as total fat, showed an increase in its measurements, according to the progression of the patients’ BMI, but there was no statistical significance in this difference between the groups of grade II and super-obese individuals.

Conclusion:

The area of total and subcutaneous fat showed an increase in its measurements according to the progression of the BMI groups, which did not happen with visceral fat.


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