Objectives: Recent evidence suggests that depression can result in abdominal obesity in the elderly.

However, increased abdominal obesity is more strongly associated with MetS in adolescents and adults.

A major factor in the development of insulin resistance is obesity, especially abdominal obesity.

Background: The prevalence of abdominal obesity is increasing dramatically worldwide.

Conclusion: General and abdominal obesity increased significantly over the past 17 years in Chinese children.

Therefore, the WC criteria for abdominal obesity should be applied differently depending on the BMI.

WC and abdominal obesity increased at a relatively higher rate than BMI and general obesity.

Glucose, abdominal obesity, lipids, hypertension and smoking were independent multivariate risk factors for myocardial infarction.

Risk of total cardiovascular events increased with the degree of regional, central or abdominal obesity.

Combining abdominal obesity and elevated fasting blood glucose had 100% sensitivity.

Conclusions: The extent of abdominal obesity and levels of two atherogenic lipoproteins time-dependently change after SC.

Additional risk factors identified by the research were: high blood pressure, diabetes, abdominal obesity and stress.

The low CRP levels may be explained in part by a low prevalence of abdominal obesity.

The association between RBP-4 and abdominal obesity was not significant in both unadjusted and adjusted models.

Impaired glucose metabolism, abdominal obesity, and elevated triglycerides were individual components associated with smaller brain volume.

We also found that physical inactivity and abdominal obesity contribute to elevated BP in primary prevention settings.