Pancreatic Steatosis Demonstrated at MR Imaging in the General Population: Clinical Relevance.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the relationship between pancreatic fat content and type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.

Materials and methods

From the prospective population-based Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP), 1367 volunteers (563 men, 678 women; median age, 50 years) underwent whole-body magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 1.5 T, which included multiecho chemical shift-encoded acquisition of the abdomen. SHIP was approved by the institutional review board, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The proton density fat fraction (PDFF) was calculated after correction for T1 bias, T2* bias, multipeak spectral complexity of fat, and noise bias. On the basis of oral glucose tolerance test results, participants were grouped into those with normal glucose toleranc

SUBMITTER: Kuhn JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4554208 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature