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Predictive performance of seven clinical surrogates of visceral adipose tissue for cardiovascular mortality: A sub-analysis of 102,385 adults from the Mexico City Prospective Study

2026-03-03 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BACKGROUNDVisceral adipose tissue (VAT) has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. However, the comparative performance of VAT-related clinical surrogates remains poorly characterized. OBJECTIVESTo evaluate the performance of seven VAT-related clinical surrogates for predicting CVD and cause-specific CVD mortality. METHODSWe analyzed data from the Mexico City Prospective Cohort, a population-based prospective cohort study, with baseline recruitmetn between 1998 - 2004 and...

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