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Sex-Difference of Associations between Cigarette Smoking and Myocardial Fibrosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

2025-07-30 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundExtracellular volume (ECV) and native T1 time (nT1) are markers of interstitial-myocardial-fibrosis (IMF) by cardiac MRI (CMR) and are associated with CV events, heart failure and death. However, the association between smoking and IMF at the population level has not been explored. ObjectivesThis study investigated the relationship between smoking and IMF by CMR, as well as the sex differences of this association in the MESA cohort. MethodsA total of 2118 participants (53% women) had...

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