The accumulation of abnormal amounts of intra-abdominal fat (central adiposity) is associated with serious adverse metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes, including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and atherosclerotic heart disease [1]. Indeed, because the medical consequences of increasing fat mass are disproportionately attributable to the extent of central adiposity, measures of overall adiposity, such as body mass index (BMI), fail to capture all of this risk [2],[3].
