A new study at Mass General Brigham is providing insight into the connection between body fat and cardiometabolic disease. With the help of a new artificial intelligence tool, researchers found that not all fat is equal when it comes to predicting cardiometabolic risk.

"It's not just about how much fat you have, but also where is the fat, what type of fat, as well as your skeletal muscle that determine your risk," said co-senior author Vineet Raghu, a computational scientist with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center.

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For a long time, body mass index has been used to determine someone's risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease. But Raghu said BMI alone d

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