Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk factors, a new study suggests.

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV ...

Skeletal muscle fat infiltration (IMAT) is linked to coronary microvascular dysfunction and increased cardiovascular risk, ...

That test could help identify patients at greatest risk for potentially deadly cardiac problems such as coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and heart failure, and ...

In a nutshell Fat hidden between muscle fibers may predict heart problems better than traditional measures like BMI or weight, especially in women. This type of fat can be detected through specialized ...

Possibly one of the ignored contributors to a risk of developing heart disease might be fatty infiltration of muscles in ...

Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases ... metabolic flexibility in mouse cardiac tissue.

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open ... The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients provided by ...

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalised from a heart ...

Heart attacks are dangerous not just because of the initial event, but the long-term damage afterwards. Now scientists have ...

A new study co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center has unveiled that a subset of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle tissue.