Association of visceral fat area or BMI with arterial stiffness in ideal cardiovascular health metrics among T2DM patients.
Ling ZhaoXiangming ZhouYufei ChenQijuan DongQidong ZhengYufan WangLi LiDong ZhaoBangqun JiFengmei XuJuan ShiYing PengYifei ZhangYuancheng DaiTingyu KeWeiqing WangPublished in: Journal of diabetes (2023)
In patients with T2DM, using VAT for anthropometric measures of obesity, VFA was more relevant to cardiovascular risk than BMI in the seven ICVHMs. For anthropometric measures of obesity in the ICVHMs to describe cardiovascular risk VFA would be more optimal than BMI.