NEW DELHI New Delhi: People who have pockets of fat hidden in their muscles have a higher risk of having a heart attack or being hospitalized for a heart attack, regardless of their body mass, according to research released on Monday. Whatever the index.
The new study published in the European Heart Journal provides evidence that existing measures, such as body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference, are not sufficient to accurately assess heart disease risk for all people. Are.
Studies have shown that people who have a higher amount of fat in their muscles are more likely to have damage to the small blood vessels that serve the heart (coronary microvascular dysfunction or CMD). They are also more likely to die or be hospitalized due to heart disease. People who had high levels of intramuscular fat and evidence of CMD had a particularly high risk of death, heart attack, and stroke . “Knowing that intramuscular fat increases heart disease risk gives us another way to identify people who are at higher risk, regardless of their body mass index.
These findings may be particularly important for understanding the heart health effects of incretin-based therapies that modify fat and muscle, including the new class of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists,” Brigham and Women of the US. Professor Vivian Tacqueti, director of the cardiac stress laboratory at the hospital, said the study analyzed muscle and different types of fat in 669 people to understand how the body's structure affects the heart's small blood vessels. Or how it may affect 'microcirculation', as well as future risk of heart failure, heart attack and death.
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