Association between abdominal adiposity and subclinical measures of left-ventricular remodeling in diabetics, prediabetics and normal controls without history of cardiovascular disease as measured by magnetic resonance imaging: results from the KORA-FF4 Study

Local, abdominal fat depots may be related to alterations in cardiac function and morphology due to a metabolic linkage. Thus, we aimed to determine their association with subtle cardiac changes and the potent...

Source: Cardiovascular Diabetology - June 12, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Christopher L. Schlett, Roberto Lorbeer, Carolyn Arndt, Sigrid Auweter, J ürgen Machann, Holger Hetterich, Birgit Linkohr, Wolfgang Rathmann, Annette Peters and Fabian Bamberg Tags: Original investigation Source Type: research