European journal of clinical nutrition
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The present study aimed to examine the relationship between visceral fat area (VFA) and regional fat mass (RFM) or its distribution characteristics and to compare these characteristics between normal and visceral obesity Japanese adults. ⋯ These results may suggest that the relationship between %RFM and VFA changes between different visceral obese levels, and for Japanese adults this is found at reaching a 100 cm(2) VFA, which corresponds to the criteria for visceral obesity.