Why the study?
Given the rising prevalence of obesity, understanding the mechanisms underlying ectopic fat accumulation across different organs is urgently needed for cardiovascular risk stratification.
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May inform cardiometabolic risk stratification beyond BMI; leaves open causal mechanisms and therapeutic targeting.
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Ferrara et al. (2019) studied this question.
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