{"id":638,"date":"2008-11-23T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=638"},"modified":"2024-01-15T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:53:52","slug":"apple-type-and-pear-type-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/apple-type-and-pear-type-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple-type and pear-type obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dZkLkQ5owI?si=lW07w0osdmqctZC8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Apple-type and pear-type obesity<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Distribution of fat is at least as important as the total amount of fat in the body. Marked adverse metabolic consequences are seen with central obesity, also known as android or apple-type, but rarely with gluteo-femoral obesity known as gynoid or pear-type. The usual measure of central obesity is the waste hip ratio. As the excess fat is usually concentrated in the hip in women and the waist in men, the optimum value for the waist hip ratio is lower in women than in men.<\/p>\n<p>Waist circumference has been found to be an even better marker of central obesity than waist hip ratio in some studies. At any given level of waist hip ratio or waist circumference, coronary artery disease rates are thought to be identical in men and women.\u00a0It is plausible that sex differences in central obesity are the key to the gender gap in coronary artery disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple-type and pear-type obesity: Marked adverse metabolic consequences are seen with central (android or apple-type), but rarely with gluteo-femoral (gynoid or pear-type) obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple-type and 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