Adiposity, Not Cardiorespiratory Fitness And Free Fat Mass Index, Strongly Associated With Components Of Metabolic Syndrome, Researchers Say.

Adiposity was strongly associated with components of metabolic syndrome, including insulin resistance, visceral fat volume and liver fat percentage, whereas cardiorespiratory fitness and free fat mass index were only weakly or nonsignificantly associated with the same parameters,” researchers found after analyzing “data from two cross-sectional samples of healthy adult monozygotic and dizygotic twins: the GEMINAKAR twin study, recruited through the population-based Danish Twin Registry (n = 996), and TwinFat, based on two Finnish, population-based studies of five consecutive birth cohorts of twins (n = 309).” http://www.healio.com/endocrinology/cardiometabolic-disorders/news/in-the-journals/%7B84a6cd81-aed6-4dea-bb94-949c3bcdf8bb%7D/adiposity-not-cardiorespiratory-fitness-associated-with-metabolic-health