Sentences with phrase «accumulation of abdominal fat»

The long - term, constant cortisol exposure associated with chronic stress produces further symptoms, including impaired cognition, decreased thyroid function, and accumulation of abdominal fat, which itself has implications for cardiovascular health.

After one year, the researchers measured the women for what they call «central obesity,» the accumulation of abdominal fat resulting in an increased waist size.

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«Increases in insulin, resulting from over-consumption of simple carbohydrates such as potatoes, wheat, rice and corn, result in fat accumulation that is specifically visceral and abdominal,» De Censi explained.

In human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, abdominal fat accumulation is associated with ectopic (out of place) fat accumulation in the liver.

The ghrelin hormone not only stimulates the brain giving rise to an increase in appetite, but also favors the accumulation of fat located in the abdominal region — considered to be the most harmful.

The most apparent is that single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.