# SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, BLOOD LIPIDS AND SUBSEQUENT OUTCOME

> **NIH NIH R01** · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · 1994 · $896,857

## Abstract

The present proposal is for continuation of a long-term serial study of
levels of body fatness and its distribution as well as risk factors for
cardiovascular disease.  Measures of body fatness include anthropometry,
underwater weighing, and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry.  The risk
factors for cardiovascular disease include blood pressure, cholesterol,
triglycerides, high and low density lipoproteins, apolipoproteins,
fasting glucose, insulin, and certain hormones.  Important new serial
data will be collected from over 800 juvenile and adult participants in
the Fels Longitudinal Study to extend the serial records and collect
additional variables.  New and existing data from this unique study,
which began in 1929, will be used to allow a better understanding of fat
and fat-distribution in normal individuals.  It will also allow a
determination of which factors, in association with co-factors,
predispose individuals as children and/or adults to high levels of body
fatness, and to develop high levels of body fatness and risk for
cardiovascular disease.

There are three groups of specific aims for this project:

1) to study serial changes during childhood and adulthood in body
composition, fat-related variables, and risk factors for cardiovascular
disease and to study associations among patterns of change in these
variables,

2) to examine associations among body composition, adipose tissue
distribution risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and lifestyle
variables, and

3) to develop, implement, and validate new methods for the study of body
composition.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2196885
- **Project number:** 2R01HD012252-17A1
- **Recipient organization:** WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
- **SAM.gov UEI:** NPT2UNTNHJZ1
- **Principal Investigator:** ROGER M SIERVOGEL
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $896,857
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1977-07-01 → 1998-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2196885

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2196885, SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, BLOOD LIPIDS AND SUBSEQUENT OUTCOME (2R01HD012252-17A1). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-26 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2196885. Licensed CC0.

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