Epicardial fat thickness
Epicardial Fat Thickness and its Association as a Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease
... Epicardial fat thickness significantly correlated with the severity of coronary ar- tery stenosis angiographically and can be used for risk ...factors, epicardial fat thickness ...
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THE EFFECT OF DIABETES ON THE RELATION OF EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS TO THE SEVERITY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE In ACUTE NON- ST ELEVATION MYCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS
... modulate epicardial fat. Because epicardial and myocardial tissues share the same coronary arterial supply it is reasonable to hypothesize that improved local vascularization may resume ...
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Correlation Between Epicardial Fat Thickness and Cardiovascular Risk in Hemodialysis Patients
... that epicardial fat thickness was highly significantly increased in hemodialysis group than the control group ...the thickness of EpF by ...
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The relationship between epicardial fat thickness and gestational diabetes mellitus
... leptin. Epicardial fat thickness (EFT) is associated with the thickness of visceral fat tissue ...barrier, epicardial fat tissue is also a local reserve for ...
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Echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness is a predictor for target vessel revascularization in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction
... EAT thickness was measured on the free wall of the right ventricle (RV) in a still image at end diastole on the parasternal long-axis ...EAT thickness was measured at the point on the free wall of the RV at ...
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Epicardial fat thickness is associated to type 2 diabetes mellitus in Korean men: a cross-sectional study
... EF thickness shows close correlation with the measurement of the total EF volume ...EF thickness in a very simple method without the help of other software ...
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Correlation between reduction of superior interventricular groove epicardial fat thickness and improvement of insulin resistance after weight loss in obese men
... study subjects to consume a 1200 Kcal diet per day comprising 55% carbohydrate, 30% fat, and 15% protein. Patients were educated how to estimate the calories and nutritional components per unit amount of food ...
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Accumulation of epicardial fat rather than visceral fat is an independent risk factor for left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis
... myocardial fat found that echocardiographic EpF accumulation might reflect myo- cardial fat in subjects with a wide range of adiposity ...abnormal fat distribution, and accumula- tion of fat, ...
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Epicardial adipose tissue thickness and NGAL levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
... of epicardial adipose tissue thickness All patients underwent 2D Doppler echocardiography with a Philips IE-33 system and S5-1 transducer (1e5 mHz, Philips, Bothell, WA, ...The epicardial fat ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE The effect of epicardial adipose tissue thickness with irritable bowel syndrome
... as epicardial fat thickness measurement with a GE- Vingmed Vivid S5 (GE-Vingmed Ultrasound AS, Horten, Norway) using a ...0.96. Epicardial fat thickness was evaluated on the free ...
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Association among epicardial fat, heart rate recovery and circadian blood pressure variability in patients with hypertension
... Epicardial fat thickness (EFT) is a newly identified car- diovascular risk ...of epicardial fat is dangerous because this fat tissue is known to have unique endocrine and ...
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EPICARDIAL FAT VOLUME AS A PREDICTOR OF THE SEVERITY OF CAD BY MSCT
... the epicardial fat thickness in patients with coronary artery ...the epicardial fat volume using cardiac MRI in asymptomatic persons and it was correlated more strongly with plaque ...
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Relationships between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and adipo-fibrokine indicator profiles post-myocardial infarction
... The EAT thickness was measured using magnetic res- onance imaging (MRI) (ExcelartAtlas 1.5 MRI imager; Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) with a magnetic field strength of 1.5 T. A T1-weighted rapid pulse sequence ...
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Human epicardial adipose tissue expresses a pathogenic profile of adipocytokines in patients with cardiovascular disease
... dial fat from CAD patients to those in omental abdominal fat from non-CAD ...in epicardial fat may represent an important and direct influence on myocar- dial metabolism due to the intimate ...
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Luseogliflozin reduces epicardial fat accumulation in patients with type 2 diabetes: a pilot study
... EF: epicardial fat; EFV: epicardial fat volume; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; γ-GTP: glutamyl transpeptidase; GIs: glycosidase inhibitors; GLP1: glucagon-like peptide 1; HDL: ...
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A study of Echocardiographic Epicardial Adipose tissue thickness and Carotid Intima media thickness to predict severity of Coronary Artery Disease.
... This was a single centre study; hence the results cannot be generalized to the Indian population. The analysis was also limited by the fact that the study enrolled only patients undergoing coronary angiogram. ...
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Coronary disease is not associated with robust alterations in inflammatory gene expression in human epicardial fat
... example, epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is the visceral fat depot of the heart ...the epicardial coronary arteries and great cardiac veins ...
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The Effect of Sires on Daily Gain and Fat Thickness
... backfat thickness (DSL), rump back thickness (DSK), sum of the fat thickness rump+back (DSLK) for the offspring of the Swedish Landrace sires are ...backfat thickness (middle of the ...
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Type 2 diabetes is associated with decreased PGC1α expression in epicardial adipose tissue of patients with coronary artery disease
... Recent studies have reported that human EAT expresses genes of the brown-like adipocytes, such as PGC1α, (UCP1), and PR-domain-missing 16 (PRDM16), suggesting that EAT may play a role in thermogenesis [13, 14]. However, ...
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Epicardial adipose tissue thickness and plasma homocysteine in patients with metabolic syndrome and normal coronary arteries
... EAT thickness begin to increase before angiographically detectable coronary artery disease in patients with MS, which represent a population at high risk for coronary artery ...EAT thickness may be used as ...
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