ArticleBMC cardiovascular disorders2018
Association between skeletal muscle mass to visceral fat area ratio and arterial stiffness in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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- Research Progress on the Association Between Sarcopenic Obesity and Atherosclerosis: Current Status and Challenges.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Association of the Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass-to-Visceral Fat Area Ratio with Cause-Specific Mortality in Diabetes.Calcified tissue international · 2025Article
- Relationship between albumin and osteoporosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Association between Geriatric Nutrition Risk Index and depression in older hemodialysis patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus: a multicenter cross-sectional study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Skeletal Muscle Mass to Visceral Fat Area Ratio and Cardiovascular Risk in Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
- Association between the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index, bone mineral density and osteoporosis in type 2 diabetes patients.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2020Article
- Comparisons of different indices of low muscle mass in relationship with cardiometabolic disorder.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe skeletal muscle mass-to-visceral fat area ratio (SVR) has been linked to arterial stiffness in non-diabetic adults. We examined the association between the SVR and arterial stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
methodsPatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (252 men and 171 women) aged 40-75 years were enrolled and divided into three groups according to SVR tertiles. Arterial stiffness was measured as brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), with baPWV> 1800 mm/s defined as high. Spearman's partial correlation was used to adjust confounding factors. The odds ratio for high baPWV was determined by multiple logistic regression analyses, and receiver-operating characteristic analysis was conducted.
resultsSVR was associated with baPWV in Chinese patients with T2DM (Spearman's partial correlation = - 0.129, P < 0.01). SVR was found to be significantly associated with baPWV on multiple logistic regression analysis. Patients in the lower SVR tertiles had a higher OR than did those in the higher SVR tertiles, after adjusting for multiple covariates (Q1: OR = 4.33 in men and 4.66 in women; Q3: OR = 1). The area under the curve for SVR was significantly greater than that for appendicular skeletal muscle (ASM), ASM/height
conclusionsSVR has an independent, negative association with arterial stiffness, and is a better risk-assessment tool than ASM, ASM/height
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