It is already known that both excess visceral fat and the lifestyle choices needed to gain it - being sedentary
and a high calorie diet - correlate with increased risk of many
age-related conditions. Going beyond associations to matters of
causation, it is worth noting that animal studies have shown that surgical removal of visceral fat increases life expectancy.
These recently published open access study results add to the existing stack of reasons to care about your weight and lifestyle choices:
The purpose of this study was to determine the association between visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and all-cause mortality. The sample included 1089 white men and women 18-84 years of age from the Pennington Center Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort of participants assessed between 1995 and 2008, and followed for mortality until 31 December 2009. Abdominal VAT was measured [using] computed tomography. There were 27 deaths during an average of 9.1 years of follow-up.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432185/
These recently published open access study results add to the existing stack of reasons to care about your weight and lifestyle choices:
The purpose of this study was to determine the association between visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and all-cause mortality. The sample included 1089 white men and women 18-84 years of age from the Pennington Center Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort of participants assessed between 1995 and 2008, and followed for mortality until 31 December 2009. Abdominal VAT was measured [using] computed tomography. There were 27 deaths during an average of 9.1 years of follow-up.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432185/
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