Associations of Abdominal Muscle Density and Area and Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Coronary Heart Disease, and Stroke: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
Britta A LarsenJohn BellettiereMatthew A AllisonRita RyuRowena M TamRobyn L McClellandIva MiljkovicChantal A VellaPamela OuyangMichael H CriquiJonathan UnkartPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
For men, abdominal muscle density is associated with lower CHD risk, whereas greater muscle area is associated with markedly increased risk of CHD.