Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology
Online ISSN : 1882-868X
Print ISSN : 0368-9395
ISSN-L : 0368-9395
Association between Serum Lipid and Body Fat Location in Adult Males in Korea
Byung KUN OhYoung HWAN Lee
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1994 Volume 60 Issue 1 Pages 31-43

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In order to made clear the relationship between body fat and serum cholesterol, the authors studied 431 adult males who were employees of an enterprise in Kyungsang Pukdo in May, 1992. Total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and triglyceride were assessed, and anthropometric measurements were carried out of height, weight, subcutaneous fat thickness and circumference of waist, hip and thigh. In this study, subcutaneous fat thickness are measured by the ultra-sonic devices, THTT-TH 500, which had been originally developed by TOYOKAWA at 6 locations of body: biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac, abdominal and thigh anterior. The results are shown below: 1) They are grouped into obese and non-obese. The former has bigger waist, abdominal, buttock (hip) and mid-thigh circumference than the later, and also more thick subcutaneous fat layer in six body location than the later. 2) Of the serum examination, the obese group has higher serum lipid than the non-obese group. 3) As to correlation between anthropometric size and serum lipid, there are more typically higher correlation in devices in the obese group than in the non-obese group. Waist of body size and fat layer which show typical association to serum lipid.

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