General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City
Authors: Dalton Tidwell, Mark Dame, Alan N. Peiris
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2020)

Letters4 February 2020General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico CityCorrection(s) for this article:CorrectionsApr 2020Correction: Correspondence on General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico CityFREEDalton Tidwell, BS, Mark Dame, MHA, and Alan N. Peiris, MD, PhDDalton Tidwell, BSTexas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas (D.T., M.D., A.N.P.)Search for more papers by this author, Mark Dame, MHATexas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas (D.T., M.D., A.N.P.)Search for more papers by this author, and Alan N. Peiris, MD, PhDTexas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas (D.T., M.D., A.N.P.)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L19-0731 SectionsSupplemental MaterialAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a Supplement.TO THE EDITOR:Gnatiuc and colleagues' article (1) reported a link between abdominal adiposity and mortality in Mexicans. In 1989, we reported an enhanced cardiovascular risk profile linked to visceral fat estimated by computed tomography (2). However, the discovery that enhanced morbidity and mortality are linked to abdominal obesity dates back several decades to Jean Vague, a French physician. Abdominal adiposity, which is associated with increased visceral fat and frequent steatosis, undoubtedly places both men and women at high risk for metabolic and ...References1. Gnatiuc L, Alegre-Díaz J, Wade R, et al. General and abdominal adiposity and mortality in Mexico City: prospective study of 150 000 adults. Ann Intern Med. 2019;171:397-405. [PMID: 31404923]. doi:10.7326/M18-3502 LinkGoogle Scholar2. Peiris AN, Sothmann MS, Hoffmann RG, et al. Adiposity, fat distribution, and cardiovascular risk. Ann Intern Med. 1989;110:867-72. [PMID: 2655520] LinkGoogle Scholar3. Dehghan M, Mente A, Zhang X, et al; Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study Investigators. Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study. Lancet. 2017;390:2050-62. [PMID: 28864332] doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32252-3 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Miyashita Y, Koide N, Ohtsuka M, et al. Beneficial effect of low carbohydrate in low calorie diets on visceral fat reduction in type 2 diabetic patients with obesity. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2004;65:235-41. [PMID: 15331203] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Park SH, Shim KW. Reduction in visceral adiposity is highly related to improvement in vascular endothelial dysfunction among obese women: an assessment of endothelial function by radial artery pulse wave analysis. Yonsei Med J. 2005;46:511-8. [PMID: 16127776] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas (D.T., M.D., A.N.P.)Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=L19-0731. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoGeneral and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City Louisa Gnatiuc , Jesus Alegre-Díaz , Rachel Wade , Raúl Ramirez-Reyes , Roberto Tapia-Conyer , Adrián Garcilazo-Ávila , Erwin Chiquete , Carlos Gonzáles-Carballo , Martha Solano-Sanchez , Robert Clarke , Rory Collins , William G. Herrington , Michael Hill , Sarah Lewington , Richard Peto , Jonathan R. Emberson , and Pablo Kuri-Morales Correction: Correspondence on General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City Metrics Cited byCorrection: Correspondence on General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City 4 February 2020Volume 172, Issue 3Page: 226-227KeywordsCarbohydratesDietFatsMortalityObesityOverweightPathogenesisPrevention, policy, and public healthRisk managementSteatosis ePublished: 4 February 2020 Issue Published: 4 February 2020 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2020 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...