Fat that infiltrates your muscles appears to dramatically increase your risk of death, according to findings published May 16 in the journal Radiology.
THURSDAY, May 18, 2023 -- It's well known that it's unhealthy to have belly fat accumulating around your abdominal organs, but there’s a more insidious form of fat that could be even more hazardous to your health, a new study says.
“I think there’s going to be profiling of patients where if you line up myosteatosis with a very fatty liver or maybe abundant visceral fat, you might be a lot worse off than if you just had one of those or two of those,” Pickhardt added. People on average carry a few kilograms of muscle fat distributed throughout their bodies, Heymsfield said. It’s more likely to gather in the legs than in other regions of the body.
“We call it ‘opportunistic screening’ for now, because it's taking data that basically used to be kind of disregarded or tossed away and harnessing that in new ways,” he added. Not only was muscle fat associated with the highest death risk, but the association held even after researchers accounted for each person’s BMI -- the best available measure for obesity.“BMI was actually a very poor predictor and had a very weak signal,” Pickhardt said. “Clearly, there are patients who were not obese who had this bad muscle measure. That’s what makes this so important -- there are lean folks in terms of BMI out there who actually have a worse profile than you might think.
Other studies have drawn a link between fatty muscles and poor outcomes. For example, a 2020 evidence review published infound that cancer patients diagnosed with myosteatosis had a 75% greater mortality risk than those without fatty muscles.It’s not exactly clear why your muscles might start accumulating fat, Heymsfield said.
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