Waist circumference cutoff identifying risks of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease in men with spinal cord injury.

Objectives: To apply spinal cord injury (SCI) specific waist circumference (WC) cutoff point to identify risks of 1) obesity, 2) metabolic syndrome (MetS), 3) cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Methods: Thirty-six men with chronic SCI underwent anthropometric measurements, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure total and regional adiposity. An SCI specific WC cutoff point of 86.

Measurement of Visceral Adipose Tissue in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry: Generation and Application of a Predictive Equation.

Purpose: Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) permits quantification of visceral adipose tissue (VAT). However, DXA has not been validated against MRI in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). A predictive equation was generated from the measurement of VAT by MRI, a "gold" standard to quantitate VAT, compared to that of DXA, a method with several practical advantages.

Serum testosterone levels may influence body composition and cardiometabolic health in men with spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objective: To establish the association between serum testosterone (T) levels, biomarkers of cardiometabolic health and regional body composition variables after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Medical research center.

Anthropometric cutoffs and associations with visceral adiposity and metabolic biomarkers after spinal cord injury.

Background/objectives: To examine associations of different anthropometric measurements of central adiposity to visceral adipose tissue (measured via multi-axial magnetic resonance imaging; MRI) and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in men with spinal cord injury (SCI). Additionally, to determine population-specific seated/supine waist and abdominal circumference cutoffs, which may identify men at increased risk of cardiometabolic disease.

Participants/methods: Twenty-two men with chronic SCI underwent MRI scans, anthropometric measurements along with assessments of various cardiometabolic risk biomarkers.

Anthropometric Prediction of Visceral Adipose Tissue in Persons With Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury.

Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in increased accumulation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT). Anthropometrics may provide an alternative to estimate VAT cross-section area (CSA) compared to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Objective: To validate the use of anthropometrics, including abdominal circumference and skinfold thickness (SF) measurements against MRI to predict subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and VAT cross-sectional areas in persons with SCI.