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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Gend Med. 2008 Dec;5(4):361–371. doi: 10.1016/j.genm.2008.11.003

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Man (upper panel) and woman (lower panel) with the same waist circumference (WC). The central white tissue in each panel depicts visceral adipose tissue (VAT). Even though the man and woman have the same WC, the man has twice as much VAT. The arrows indicate the waist perimeter. BMI = body mass index.