Some types of body fat—like the visceral fat that lies deep in your abdomen and surrounds your internal organs—are more harmful to your health than others. Visceral fat increases your risk for certain ...

Somatic pain occurs when pain receptors in tissues (like the skin, muscles, and joints) are activated. Visceral pain occurs when pain receptors in the pelvis, abdomen, chest, or intestines are ...

Visceral fat, or fat stored deep in the abdominal cavity, is directly linked to an increased risk for colon cancer, according to new data from a mouse study. Visceral fat, or fat stored deep in the ...

The term “visceral fat” may sound like something from a science textbook, but it’s actually the term used in research for the fat that surrounds your internal organs in your abdominal cavity. Many ...

To identify the appropriate visceral adipose tissue (VAT) cutoff values for the diagnosis of abdominal obesity in predicting diabetes and the corresponding waist circumference in the Chinese ...

Our objective was to investigate whether determination of the quantity of visceral fat has an additional benefit in assessing atherosclerotic burden in men with type 2 diabetes compared with the ...