Visceral adiposity index and the risk of heart failure, late-life cardiac structure, and function in ARIC study.

We investigated the relationship between visceral adiposity index (VAI) and incident heart failure (HF) in 12 161 participants and further evaluated the possible effect of the VAI on late-life left ventricular (LV) structure and function in 4817 participants who underwent echocardiography examination at Visit 5 in Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.Our study found that VAI, a simple alternative indicator of visceral obesity, was positively associated with the risk of HF.Our results shown that VAI was significantly associated with abnormal LV geometry and worse LV diastolic function in late life.