Dengel co-authors article on risk of abdominal fat in children

Donald Dengel, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology,  and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology,  is a co-author of an article published in, Clinical Obesity. The article titled, “The Relative Contributions of the Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat Depots to Cardiometabolic Risk in Youth,” examined the effects of abdominal fat in children on the development of cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors.

Lead author of this article is Dr. Aaron Kelly, School of Kinesiology alum (Ph.D., ’04).