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

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.