Description

Excessive abdominal or visceral fat, known as truncal obesity, is associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk. Truncal obesity is when a person has more fat concentrated around the center of their body, such as their stomach and abdomen, than their extremities. It is also known as central obesity, centripetal obesity, and abdominal obesity. Obesity and the metabolic syndrome contributes to a systemic pro-inflammatory and oxidized milieu leading to arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction.If BMI is 25.0 to 29.9. individual is overweight and not obese.There are three classes of obesity as follows:Class 1 low-risk obesity, if BMI is 30.0 to