Fig. 2
The same patient as in Fig. 1 is presented. a Aortic pulse wave velocity was calculated from through-plane 2D velocity-encoded CMR transecting the ascending aorta (red) and the abdominal aorta, above the aortic bifurcation (green) (left panel), according to: aortic pulse wave velocity = ∆x/∆t, with ∆x: the distance between the ascending and abdominal aorta (yellow dotted line) and ∆t: transit time of the onset of the systolic velocity wave front (black arrow) (right panel). b Proton-cardioavascular magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-CMRS) was used to measure the myocardial triglyceride content. The voxel of interest was placed in the mid-ventricular septum (yellow box) (left panel). Myocardial triglyceride content was calculated as Tg-(CH2)n and Tg-CH3 relative to the sum of the triglyceride and the unsuppressed water signal (not shown). Triglycerides were measured using the water-suppressed spectrum (right panel). c Native T1 was measured in the mid-ventricular septal segments in short-axis view (black, dotted region of interest)