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Ziad Gerges1, Agalya Ramkumar2, Md Imran Hossain1

  • 1Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Cardiovascular Diabetology. Endocrinology Reports
|April 19, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
A Body Shape IndexAll-cause mortalityCardiovascular riskInsulin resistanceProspective cohort studyTriglyceride-glucose indexVisceral adiposity

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