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M. Torres-Chávez

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Open access Aug 2026

Visceral adipose tissue and incident cardiovascular disease among individuals without diabetes: an analysis of 15 prospective cohorts from 7 countries in Latin America

Summary Background Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) may causally contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, evidence in Latin America is limited. Here, we evaluated the association between estimated VAT (eVAT) and incident CVD among individuals without diabetes and estimated its population-attributable fraction...

M. Torres-Chávez, Jesús Ernesto Martínez-Luna, M. F. Suárez-Velázquez et al. · The Lancet Regional Health -... · 0 citations

Review Open access Aug 2026

Prevalence of excess adiposity and clinical obesity in a Mexican nationally representative survey

Body mass index (BMI) alone may underestimate clinically relevant obesity because it does not capture central fat distribution. We compared obesity prevalence in Mexico using BMI-only criteria, adiposity-confirmed criteria, and the clinical obesity definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission...

M. Torres-Chávez, N. E. Antonio-Villa, M. González-Arias et al. · medRxiv · 0 citations

Review Sep 2026

Association between lipoprotein(a) and structural degeneration of bioprosthetic aortic valves: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Structural valve degeneration (SVD) remains a major limitation of bioprosthetic aortic valves (bAVs). Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a genetically determined cardiovascular risk factor implicated in native aortic valve calcification, but its role in bioprosthetic valve degeneration remains incompletely understood...

Ermilo Echeverría-Ortegón, M. Torres-Chávez, Alfredo Perez Tagle Tejeda et al. · Journal of Clinical Lipidolo... · 0 citations