VAT Trap Blog

Cardiovascular deaths fell 70–80% in sixty years — one of medicine's greatest triumphs. But progress is now slowing. Visceral fat, not LDL-C, is the upstream driver of the four real epidemic diseases: atrial fibrillation, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. The VAT-TRAP four-pillar framework addresses all four simultaneously.

Five key metrics—blood pressure, ApoB, glucose patterns, waist ratio, and muscle strength—redefine cardiovascular risk beyond outdated BMI measurements.