Sentences with phrase «measuring subcutaneous fat»

Further, as noted by Kostek et al. (12), most studies investigating «spot reduction» have used skinfolds to measure subcutaneous fat.

Not exact matches

The research team also scanned the participants using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment to accurately measure the amount of fat in the liver, inner (visceral) and outer (subcutaneous) fat layers, and total abdominal fat.

Six weeks of abdominal exercise training alone was not sufficient to reduce abdominal subcutaneous fat and other measures of body composition.

Recently Kostek et al. (12) showed a significant reduction in the subcutaneous fat in a trained arm compared to an untrained arm only in men (p < 0.05) after 12 weeks of supervised resistance training when measured by the skinfold technique but not by MRI (12).

At baseline and 6 and 24 months, body fat mass and lean mass (n = 424) were measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)(Hologic QDR 4500A bone densitometer; Hologic); visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat (n = 165) were measured using a computed tomography (CT) scanner [39]; and blood pressure was measured by an automated device (Omron HEM907XL; Omron).