Several studies have shown that the accumulation of
body fat in the abdominal region, regardless of the individual’s
total body fat content, is an independent predictive
factor for fat accumulation in hepatocytes and, therefore,
crucial in the pathogenesis of NAFLD23,24. The WC is
considered more sensitive to metabolic alterations and/or
cardiovascular morbimortality than the simple increase in
body weight measured by BMI21.