Endocrine Abstracts

Background/aim: Visceral obesity rather than generalized obesity has been recognized as a risk factor for development of colonic adenomatous polyps. We aimed to to find out whether there is association between the obesity parameters determined by TANITA such as fat percent, body mass index (BMI) and visceral fat rating and prevalence of colonic adenomatous polyps.

Material and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a consecutive series of 231 cases who underwent colonoscopy during December 2012 to September 2013 at the Cumhuriyet University Hospital. The device TANITA BC 420 MA High Capacity Body Composition Analyser with integral printer(Tokyo, Japan) was used for determining obesity parameters mentioned above.

Results: We have found in our study that there was not any association of body mass index with colonic adenomatous polyp prevalance. However we have found that patients described as overweight and obese had significantly higher colonic polyp prevalance than patients described as healthy. We also found that patients with a visceral fat rating of >12 had a nearly three fold prevalance of adenomatous polyps.

Conclusion: In conclusion for the first time in the literature we used TANITA measurements to predict the patients at risk of colonic adenomatous polyps. We think that our finding of nearly three fold increased prevalance of adenomatous polyps above the cut off visceral fat value of 12 is important and can help us detect which patients need screening colonoscopy. However studies with larger number of patients are neeeded to confirm our results.

Keywords: Colonoscopy, colonic adenomatous polyps, TANITA, visceral fat rating