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Association of the Chinese visceral adiposity index with incident cardiovascular disease in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages 0–3: a nationwide prospective cohort study

Key takeaways

Researchers followed a large national group of adults in China who had early heart, kidney and metabolic problems. People who scored higher on a measure of fat around the organs were more likely to develop heart disease later. This shows a link, not proof that the belly fat caused the heart disease. The number of people and the years of follow-up were not in the summary available.

Who did this work

Feng Long · Geng Yang · Hesong Zeng · Yilin Pan · Xiaonan He

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-29
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-026-03348-0