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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Jun 1;77(21):2638–2652. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.003

Central Illustration: Cumulative Incidence of Heart Failure by Categories of Pericardial Fat Volume at Baseline.

Central Illustration:

In MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), newly diagnosed heart failure (HF) occurred more frequently among participants with high compared with normal pericardial fat volume (PFV) in both women (A) and men (B). Vertical bars represent standard errors. Data shown are truncated at 16 years of follow-up.