BODY FAT VERSUS DIETARY FAT IN A BI-RACIAL POPULATION OF MEN AND WOMEN: THE HERITAGE FAMILY STUDY

511 We studied the correlation of dietary fat to various anthropometric and abdominal fat measurements on 479 white and 252 black men and women participating in the HERITAGE Family Study. At baseline subjects completed a food frequency questionnaire; fat mass was determined from underwater weighing; and intraabdominal (CT_DP), subcutaneous (CT_Sub), and total abdominal fat (CT_Tot) was determined from computed tomography (level of the fourth to fifth lumbar vertebrae). Partial correlation coefficients between dietary fat intake (% Kcals from fat) body fat variables, and other dietary variables are shown below controlling for the total amount of fat mass as a possible confounding variable. TableTableWhite females were the only sub-group to show a significant association(p<.04) with% Kcals from fat and abdominal fat accumulation.