Role of Ultrasonography Compared to Computed Tomography in Measurement of Visceral Adipose Tissue and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Diabetic Overweight and Obese Adolescents

Background: Ultrasound is considered as a suitable, accurate, safe, available technique to measure abdominal adipose tissue of low cost compared to other imaging modalities as CT and MRI. It is superior to BMI as a monitor for diabesity because of it is ability to differentiate between visceral adip...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences 2022-06, Vol.10 (B), p.1715-1719
Hauptverfasser: Gadalla, Amr A. Elfattah Hassan, El-Dayem, Soha M.Abd, Fayed, Eman Rabie Hassan, El-Bohy, Abo El-Magd Mohamed
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Background: Ultrasound is considered as a suitable, accurate, safe, available technique to measure abdominal adipose tissue of low cost compared to other imaging modalities as CT and MRI. It is superior to BMI as a monitor for diabesity because of it is ability to differentiate between visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in wide epidemiological studies. Results:  The correlation between the ultrasound and CT measurements was high with correlation coefficient 0.921 and 0.988 for VAT and SAT respectively. Also there was high significant correlation between the BMI and US and CT measurements of VAT and SAT in all studied groups with correlation coefficient ranging from 0.514 to 0.956. Conclusion: Ultrasound provides reproducible and valid estimates of VAT and SAT and represents a useful method to assess abdominal fat in large scale epidemiological studies.
ISSN:1857-9655
1857-9655
DOI:10.3889/oamjms.2022.9708