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Greater Skeletal Muscle Fat Infiltration Is Associated With Higher All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Older Men.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Skeletal muscle fat infiltration (myosteatosis) increases with aging, and has been associated with poor metabolic and musculoskeletal health, independent of overall adiposity. Studies examining the relationship of myosteatosis and mortality among older individuals recruited without regard to their health status are sparse.

Methods

We evaluated the association of peripheral computed tomography measured calf myosteatosis (intermuscular fat and muscle density as a measure of intramuscular fat) with mortality in 1,063 community-dwelling older men. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the risk of mortality independent of potential confounders.

Results

During a mean follow-up of 7.2 years, 317 participants died. After adjustment for potential covariates and additional adjustment for whole body fat, lower skeletal muscle density was associated with increased all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval] per standard deviation lower skeletal muscle density: 1.24 [1.09-1.41] and 1.46 [1.15-1.86], respectively), and to some extent with noncardiovascular disease mortality (1.18 [1.0-1.38], p = .053). After adjusting for trunk fat in a separate multivariable model, the association between skeletal muscle density and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality remained significant (both p < .01), while its association with noncardiovascular disease mortality became of borderline significance (p = .085). No other measures of adiposity, including calf intermuscular fat, were associated with mortality.

Conclusion

Our study reveals an independent association between skeletal muscle density and mortality in a community-based sample of older, predominantly Caucasian men. Further studies are needed to establish if this association is independent of other ectopic fat depots, and to identify the biological mechanisms underlying this relationship.

SUBMITTER: Miljkovic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4553718 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Greater Skeletal Muscle Fat Infiltration Is Associated With Higher All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Older Men.

Miljkovic Iva I   Kuipers Allison L AL   Cauley Jane A JA   Prasad Tanushree T   Lee Christine G CG   Ensrud Kristine E KE   Cawthon Peggy M PM   Hoffman Andrew R AR   Dam Thuy-Tien TT   Gordon Christopher L CL   Zmuda Joseph M JM  

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 20150402 9


<h4>Background</h4>Skeletal muscle fat infiltration (myosteatosis) increases with aging, and has been associated with poor metabolic and musculoskeletal health, independent of overall adiposity. Studies examining the relationship of myosteatosis and mortality among older individuals recruited without regard to their health status are sparse.<h4>Methods</h4>We evaluated the association of peripheral computed tomography measured calf myosteatosis (intermuscular fat and muscle density as a measure  ...[more]

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