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Fatty Muscles Raise the Risk of Serious Heart Disease Regardless of Overall Body Weight, study shows

Fatty muscles raise the risk of serious heart disease regardless of overall body weight
Researchers used CT scans to analyze each patient’s body composition, measuring the amounts and location of fat and muscle in a section of their torso. SAT = subcutaneous adipose tissue SM = skeletal muscle IMAT = intermuscular adipose tissue. Credit: Vivianty Taqueti / European Heart Journal

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heartattack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.

This ‘intermuscular’ fat is highly prized in beef steaks for cooking. However, little is known about this type of body fat in humans, and its impact on health...

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