Visceral fat is a kind of human body fat. It is different from subcutaneous fat (that is, we usually know that the body can touch the "fat"). It surrounds human organs and mainly exists in abdominal cavity. Visceral fat is of great significance to our health.

A certain amount of visceral fat is actually necessary for human body, because visceral fat surrounds human organs and plays a role in supporting, stabilizing and protecting human organs.

Visceral fat area or visceral fat index is one of the detection indexes of body composition analyzer and an important index to evaluate whether it belongs to recessive obesity.

Visceral fat area VFA refers to the area of visceral fat in CT images of abdominal navel section, and the unit is c㎡ 2.

According to the report of the Research Committee of Obesity Diagnostic Criteria of Japanese Obesity Society, if the visceral fat area exceeds100cm2, the number of complications will increase significantly, and the average number of complications will exceed 1.5. If it exceeds 150 cm ㎡, the complications will increase, with an average of more than 2.

* The so-called complications refer to lifestyle diseases caused by obesity (mainly type 2 diabetes, abnormal fat metabolism, hypertension, etc.). ).