Trial reportDiabetes research and clinical practice2014
Epicardial adipose tissue volume as a marker of coronary artery disease severity in patients with diabetes independent of coronary artery calcium: findings from the CTRAD study.
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- Epicardial adipose tissue mediates the association between circulating hsa-miR-4750-3p and coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Observational
- Epicardial Fat Thickness as a Marker of Coronary Artery Disease Severity and Ischemic Burden: A Prospective Echocardiographic Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Left Atrial Epicardial Adipose Tissue Volume and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Epicardial Fat Tissue: A Potential Marker for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Novel Potential Imaging Marker of Comorbidities Caused by Chronic Inflammation.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Aortic arch calcification with pericardial fat mass detected on a single chest X-ray image is closely associated with the predictive variables of future cardiovascular disease.Heart and vessels · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and Obesity: Role of Ectopic Visceral and Epicardial Adipose Tissues in Myocardial Injury.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
- Epicardial fat attenuation, not volume, predicts obstructive coronary artery disease and high risk plaque features in patients with atypical chest pain.The British journal of radiology · 2020Article
- Coronary plaque characteristics and epicardial fat tissue in long term survivors of type 1 diabetes identified by coronary computed tomography angiography.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2019Article
- Endoplasmic reticulum stress in perivascular adipose tissue promotes destabilization of atherosclerotic plaque by regulating GM-CSF paracrine.Journal of translational medicine · 2018Article
- Increased severity of liver fat content and liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease correlate with epicardial fat volume in type 2 diabetes: A prospective study.European radiology · 2018Article
- The Relation of Androgenetic Alopecia Severity with Epicardial Fat Thickness.Annals of dermatology · 2016Article
- Role of miRNAs in Epicardial Adipose Tissue in CAD Patients with T2DM.BioMed research international · 2016Article
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Abstract
aimsThe association between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume and coronary artery disease (CAD) severity was evaluated, independent of traditional risk factors and coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores, in patients with diabetes type 2 (DM-2) using cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA).
methodsA multivariate analysis was utilized to assess for an independent association after calculating EAT volume, CAD severity, and calcium scores in 92 patients with DM-II from the CTRAD study. We graded CAD severity as none (normal coronaries), mild-moderate (<70% stenosis), and severe (70% or greater stenosis).
resultsA total of 39 (42.3%) asymptomatic patients with diabetes did not have CAD; 30.4% had mild/moderate CAD; and 27.1% had severe CAD. Mean EAT volume was highest in patients with severe CAD (143.14 cm(3)) as compared to mild/moderate CAD (112.7 cm(3)), and no CAD (107.5 cm(3)) (p = 0.003). After adjustment of clinical risk factors, notably, CAC score, multivariate regression analysis showed EAT volume was an independent predictor of CAD severity in this sample (odds ratio 11.2, 95% confidence interval 1.7-73.8, p = 0.01).
conclusionsIncreasing EAT volume in asymptomatic patients with DM-II is associated with presence of severe CAD, independent of BMI and CAC, as well as traditional risk factors.
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