| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Emerging super-aging societies have an urgent need for preventive assessment and therapy for both metabolic syndrome (MS) arsing from fat gain, and locomotive organ disorders (LODs) arising from muslce loss, as a common aging process. Therefore, this study investigated the association of abdominal trunk muscle with MS and LODs using computed tomography images at the level of the umbilicus primarily taken for the assessment of visceral adiposity (a primordial marker for MS).
Unlike our primary hypothesis, there was no superior association of abdominal trunk muscle with MS, comapared with visceral adiposity. However, smaller area/lower attenuation value of the abdominal trunk (especially paraspinal) muscles, rather than appendicular or total lean mass, was associated with LODs (especially knee osteoarthritis). Our finding suggests that a simultaneous assessment of abdominal trunk muscle with visceral adiposity enables us to assess both MS and LODs in the clinical setting.
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