The fat you can’t see might be the most dangerous.

Name: The fat you can’t see might be the most dangerous.
Uploaded: 2025-09-24T17:00:20+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this talk, the speaker describes a longitudinal study conducted at Cornell Medical Center that used DEXA scans to quantify visceral fat in a cohort of…

24 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker describes a longitudinal study conducted at Cornell Medical Center that used DEXA scans to quantify visceral fat in a cohort of normal‑weight and thin women. Over a 13‑year follow‑up, the researchers compared health outcomes and discovered that women who later developed breast cancer had significantly higher amounts of visceral fat. The analysis showed a three‑fold increase in breast‑cancer risk associated with elevated visceral fat, highlighting a hidden health danger in seemingly healthy‑weight individuals.

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In fact, there was a study done out of Cornell Medical Center looking at women who were normal or thin, looking at their visceral fat from the outside, looking at their visceral fat. So they did these DEXA scans. These are scans that really measure the tissue compartments in your body composition. And they found that these women, they found to measure the amount of visceral fat for all these women. They followed them for 13 years and they found that those women, and then at 13 years they wanted to figure out like, okay, how did they do? What kind of conditions they develop? Well, here's what they found. They found that those women who developed breast cancer, okay, had more visceral fat. And in fact, women with visceral fat had a threefold increase in the risk of developing breast cancer.