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Abdominal subcutaneous fat is a stronger predictor of cardiometabolic risk markers than visceral fat in young lean rural Indians

2026-02-03 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundVisceral adiposity is widely regarded as the pathogenic component of central obesity in cardiometabolic disease. However, emerging evidence suggests that abdominal subcutaneous adiposity may also confer metabolic risk in South Asian populations, although data in young, lean individuals are scarce. We investigated associations of MRI-measured abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (ASAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) with cardiometabolic risk markers in young rural Indian adults. Me...

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