Lifestyle Factors and 5-Year Abdominal Fat Accumulation in a Minority Cohort: The IRAS Family Study

• Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 421 - 427
• Main Authors: Hairston, Kristen G., Vitolins, Mara Z., Norris, Jill M., Anderson, Andrea M., Hanley, Anthony J., Wagenknecht, Lynne E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2012
• Subjects: Abdomen; Adiposity; Adult; African Americans; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Atherosclerosis - diagnostic imaging; Atherosclerosis - epidemiology; Body fat; Cohort Studies; Eating; Energy Metabolism; Family Health; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Insulin Resistance; Intra-Abdominal Fat; Life Style; Lifestyles; Male; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority Groups; Radiography; Smoking - epidemiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tomography

The objective of this study was to examine whether lifestyle factors were associated with 5‐year change in abdominal fat measured by computed tomography (CT) in the Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis (IRAS) Family Study. We obtained abdominal CT scans at baseline and at 5 years, from African Ame...