Does visceral adipose tissue predict and mediate the progression of coronary calcification?
Visceral adipose tissue and its clinical surrogate METS-VF are independent predictors of coronary calcification progression, highlighting their utility in identifying at-risk patients in daily clinical practice.
This study supports the hypothesis that VAT is a mediator of the risk conferred by subcutaneous adipose tissue dysfunction. METS-VF is an efficient clinical surrogate that could facilitate the identification of at-risk adiposity subjects in daily clinical practice.
Antonio-Villa et al. (Mon,) studied this question.