Visceral adipose tissue area predicts intensive care unit admission in COVID-19 patients.

<p>Dataset from the article&nbsp;Pediconi F, Rizzo V, Schiaffino S, Cozzi A, Della Pepa G, Galati F, Catalano C, Sardanelli F. Visceral adipose tissue area predicts intensive care unit admission in COVID-19 patients. Obes Res Clin Pract. 2021 Jan-Feb;15(1):89-92. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2020.12.002. Epub 2020 Dec 11. PMID: 33358147; PMCID: PMC7836243.</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p>We retrospectively investigated, in 62 consecutive hospitalised COVID-19 patients (aged 70 &plusmn; 14 years, 40 males), the prognostic value of CT-derived subcutaneous adipose tissue and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) metrics, testing them in four predictive models for admission to intensive care unit (ICU), with and without pre-existing comorbidities. Multivariate logistic regression identified VAT score as the best ICU admission predictor (odds ratios 4.307-12.842). A non-relevant contribution of comorbidities at receiver operating characteristic analysis (area under the curve 0.821 for the CT-based model, 0.834 for the one including comorbidities) highlights the potential one-stop-shop prognostic role of CT-derived lung and adipose tissue metrics.</p>