What age related change is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, and abnormal lipoprotein profiles?
a. sarcopenia
b. decreased circulating growth hormone
c. increased central-to-peripheral adiposity measurements
d. decreased performance ability
Answer: c. increased central-to-peripheral adiposity measurements
Increased central-to-peripheral adiposity measurements, indicating fat mass increasing around the abdomen, is an age related change associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, and abnormal lipoprotein profiles.