Doctoral candidate Tyler Bosch is the lead author of an article to be published in the journal, Pediatric Obesity. The article,  “Visceral adipose tissue measured by DXA correlates with measurement by CT and is associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in children,” examined the a new method of determining visceral adipose tissue in children using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). This measure of visceral adipose tissue was associated with cardiometabolic risk factors. This article was part of Mr. Bosch’s doctoral dissertation. Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., a professor of kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology in the School of Kinesiology, is a co-author on this article.