TY - JOUR AU - McGrath, Sean AU - Brazel, Danielle AU - Dugas, Lara AU - Cao, Guichan AU - Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon AU - Luke, Amy PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/07 TI - Physical activity and central adiposity in a cohort of African-American adults JO - BMC Obesity SP - 34 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is known as an independent predictor of cardiometabolic risk and all-cause mortality, while increased physical activity has been shown to improve cardiometabolic risk. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether or not there is an association between objectively-measured physical activity and VAT in a community-based cohort of African-American adults, a population at higher-than-average risk for cardiometabolic diseases. SN - 2052-9538 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40608-017-0170-4 DO - 10.1186/s40608-017-0170-4 ID - McGrath2017 ER -