Mortality associated with body fat, fat-free mass and body mass index among 60-year-old swedish men-a 22-year follow-up. The study of men born in 1913.

Objective: To describe differences in the 22 y mortality risk associated with body mass index (BMI), body fat or fat-free mass, in order to examine if the differential health consequences of fat and fat-free mass may be responsible for elevated mortality rates at both high and low BMI.

Design: Prospective cohort study, a 22 y follow-up.

Setting: General community.

Fasting serum insulin in relation to components of the metabolic syndrome in European healthy men: the European Fat Distribution Study.

To investigate the "metabolic" syndrome in different European populations, samples of 38-year-old healthy men were randomly selected from six centers: Gothenburg (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland), Deinze (Belgium), Verona (Italy), Lumiar (Portugal), and Ede (The Netherlands). In total, 515 men were studied. Anthropometric measurements and blood pressure levels were taken by one or two operators in each center after a common operator's training course.

Fat distribution in European men: a comparison of anthropometric measurements in relation to cardiovascular risk factors.

It has been proposed that subcutaneous fat patterning assessed by skinfolds is measuring different aspects of fat distribution compared to circumferences and circumference ratios. In this study in 510 men born in 1950 selected from six European towns we compared the associations between five skinfolds, eight circumferences and several skinfold and circumference ratios and metabolic risk factors after adjustment for body mass index (BMI). All skinfolds were independently of BMI positively related to diastolic blood pressure.

Polyunsaturated fatty acids in adipose tissue in European men aged 38 years in relation to serum lipids, smoking habits, and fat distribution.

Fat biopsies were taken from 327 men aged 38 years from five different European communities in 1988-1989. Linoleic acid content varied widely (F = 110.6, p less than 0.

Fasting serum insulin in relation to fat distribution, serum lipid profile, and blood pressure in European women: the European Fat Distribution Study.

Samples of 38-year-old women were randomly selected from five European centers: Ede (The Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland), Gothenburg (Sweden), Verona (northern Italy), and Afragola (Naples-southern Italy). In total, 452 healthy women were studied. Anthropometric measurements were taken by one operator in each country after common training of all operators and blood parameters of all women were determined in one laboratory.