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AI Revolutionizes Body Fat Assessment, Beyond BMI
10/1/2025
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- AI can assess body composition from MRI in under three minutes.
- Annals of Internal Medicine study analyzed 33,432 UK Biobank participants for visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and skeletal muscle fat.
- VAT linked to diabetes and major adverse cardiovascular events; SAT did not.
- Abdominal fat links to cancer risks; hip fat may reduce breast cancer risk; experts urge moving beyond BMI.
