Visceral adiposity index and risks of cardiovascular events and mortality in prevalent hemodialysis patients

Conclusion: VAI is an optimal method to measure visceral adiposity to assess long-term CV outcomes and all-cause mortality in prevalent hemodialysis patients. VAI may provide a superior predictive power of CV outcomes to WC and WHtR.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT01457625

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Source: Cardiovascular Diabetology - October 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hung-Yuan ChenYen-Ling ChiuYi-Fang ChuangShih-Ping HsuMei-Fen PaiJu-Yeh YangYu-Sen Peng Source Type: research