@article{oai:sapmed.repo.nii.ac.jp:00014669, author = {石井, 勝久 and 田中, 繁道 and 斎藤, 重幸}, issue = {2}, journal = {札幌医学雑誌 = The Sapporo medical journal, The Sapporo medical journal}, month = {Apr}, note = {A cross-sectional epidemiological study was performed in 628 male inhabitants (aged 30-69 years, mean 56.6±9.8 years) in two rural agricultural towns in Hokkaido, Japan, in order to clarify the relations among adiposity, adipose tissue distribution, plasma insulin levels and cardiovascular risk factors. In 184 men (aged 30-69 years, mean 56.4±9.8 years) who had given consent, the 75g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was done. Variables for analysis were body fat weight to whole body weight ratio (FR) measured by the bioimpedance method (Tanita BF 102), waist to hip circumference ratio (WHR), systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), HDL cholesterol (HDL), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), insulin level at 120 min after OGTT (120IRI), and sum of insulin levels before and at 60 and 120 min after OGTT (ΣRI). Hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and hypo-HDL cholesterolemia were defined by TC≧220 mg/dl, TG≧150 mg/dl and HDL<40 mg/dl, respectively. FR correlated positively with SBP, DBP, TC, TG and FPG, and negatively with HDL. SBP, DBP, TC, TG and FPG were significantly higher in the 50% of subjects with FR>median FR than in the group with FR