NEW ORLEANS — Why Do Men Accumulate Abdominal Visceral Fat? That’s the topic of research published in 2019 in Frontiers of Physiology. “The accumulation of abdominal visceral fat in men, which is a ...

A cross-sectional study with 99 newborns was performed at Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira, Brazil. Abdominal subcutaneous and visceral thickness were measured by ultrasound.

Obesity is a growing issue. Visceral abdominal obesity, not general obesity, could be a significant independent risk factor of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), especially IBS-D (diarrhea dominant IBS).

Despite having lower visceral fat, women show stronger associations between fat distribution and metabolic risk.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found lower white matter volumes in patients with obesity and insulin resistance vs. those who were ...

The worry of gaining weight is a common excuse for smokers not to quit. A new study published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that both starting smoking and lifetime smoking may ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher levels of intra-abdominal visceral adipose tissue correlated with worse outcomes in patients with IBD.

Nov. 9, 2004 — Daily replacement therapy with 50 mg of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) significantly decreases visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat and significantly increases insulin sensitivity in ...

Increasing body fat accumulation significantly raised men's odds of developing advanced and fatal prostate cancer, data from a large prospective study of men in Iceland showed. Higher concentrations ...

The underlying hypothesis behind both reports is that a surgical approach designed to achieve wide macroscopically negative surgical margins may lead to lower rates of microscopically positive ...

Respiratory distress, dyspnea, and tachypnea are common signs in sick birds and can be associated with a space-occupying lesion in the coelemic cavity. The absence of a diaphragm means that any mass ...

Kirk E. Smith, Charlotte F. Quist and James M. Crum Laminosioptes cysticola, the fowl cyst mite, was found in peripheral nerves and thoracic and abdominal viscera of an emaciated eastern wild turkey ...