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Adiposity of the Heart
- Gianluca Iacobellis, MD, PhD; and
- Arya M. Sharma, MD, PhD
- From McMaster University, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario L8L 2X2, Canada.
TO THE EDITOR:
We read the review by McGavock and colleagues (1) with great interest. The concept of a relationship of myocardial lipid content with generalized adiposity and potentially with cardiac morphologic characteristics and function in obese patients is intriguing. We also agree that intramyocardial fat content detected by magnetic resonance spectroscopy could be a target for drugs that interact with the adipose tissue. Nevertheless, we would like to point out the relationship of the adiposity around the heart with visceral adiposity and cardiac structure in humans. …
