Association between Skeletal Muscle Mass-to-Visceral Fat Ratio and Dietary and Cardiometabolic Health Risk Factors among Korean Women with Obesity

• Published in: Nutrients Vol. 15; no. 7; p. 1574
• Main Authors: Lim, Heeju, Son, Kumhee, Lim, Hyunjung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24-03-2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Adipose tissues; Blood; Blood pressure; Body composition; Body fat; Body mass index; cardiometabolic risk factors; Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology; Cholesterol; Cholesterol, LDL; Complications and side effects; Diet; Diet therapy; dietary factors; Dietary Fats; Dietary intake; Eating behavior; Fatty Acids; Female; Food; Glucose; Health aspects; Health risks; High density lipoprotein; Humans; Inflammation; Insulin resistance; Intra-Abdominal Fat; Lipids; Measurement; Metabolism; Muscle, Skeletal; Muscles; Musculoskeletal system; Nutrition; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Physiological aspects; Prevention; Pyridoxine; Questionnaires; Republic of Korea - epidemiology; Risk Factors; Sarcopenia; Sarcopenia - complications; sarcopenic obesity; Skeletal muscle; skeletal muscle mass-to-visceral fat area ratio; Sociodemographics; Vitamin B12; Vitamin B6; Vitamins; Women; Womens health; Republic of Korea; South Korea; United States > US; cardiometabolic risk factors; dietary factors; sarcopenic obesity; skeletal muscle mass-to-visceral fat area ratio
• DOI: 10.3390/nu15071574
• EISSN: 2072-6643

Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is more associated with cardiovascular diseases than sarcopenia or obesity alone. This study aimed to assess the association between the skeletal muscle mass-to-visceral fat area ratio (SVR) and dietary and cardiometabolic health risk factors in obese women. Fifty-nine women aged 19-65 years with BMI values of ≥25 kg/m
and <32 kg/m
were included. The SVR was inversely correlated with blood lipids (total cholesterol, β = -0.369,
= 0.022; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, β = -0.326,
= 0.049) and hs-CRP (β = -0.305,
= 0.043). Among the dietary factors, fatty acid intake (saturated fatty acids (SFA), β = -0.287,
= 0.044; monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), β = -0.282,
= 0.048; polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), β = -0.301,
= 0.035) was inversely correlated with the SVR. Conversely, vitamin B
and B
intake (vitamin B
, β = 0.338,
= 0.012; vitamin B
, β = 0.281,
= 0.024) showed positive associations with the SVR. Individuals with a lower SVR were more likely to have SO and higher blood lipids and inflammatory marker levels. Regarding dietary factors, the SVR increased with vitamin B
and B
intake, which was less likely to occur in individuals with SO.