Abstract #0850

Visceral Fat Saturation is Positively Correlated with Liver Fat Content

Jesper Lundbom¹, Antti Hakkarainen, Sanni Sderlund², Jukka Westerbacka², Nina Lundbom¹, Marja-Riitta Taskinen²

¹HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki, Finland; ²Department of Medicine, Helsinki University

We used long TE 1H-MRS to characterize visceral adipose tissue saturated fat. The CH2/CH3 ratio correlated positively with liver fat content in 14 male subjects. This is in contrast to a previously reported negative correlation between subcutaneous CH2/CH3 and liver fat content.