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Researchers say fat hidden in muscles can increase the risk of mortality similar to the risk posed by type 2 diabetes. They urge medical professionals to tools other than body-mass index to measure muscle fat.

Asymptomatic adults with a high accumulation of fat in their muscles are at an increased risk of major adverse events and death

Myosteatosis is the accumulation of fat in skeletal muscle.

Asymptomatic adults with a high accumulation of fat in their muscles, known as myosteatosis, are at an increased risk of major adverse events and death, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.

Asymptomatic adults with a high accumulation of fat in their muscles, known as myosteatosis, are at an increased risk of major adverse events and death,