ArticleClinical kidney journal2020
Epicardial fat, cardiovascular risk factors and calcifications in patients with chronic kidney disease.
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- Association between epicardial and pericadial fat thickness and coronary artery calcification severity in chronic kidney disease patients: A pilot study.ARYA atherosclerosis · 2025Article
- Analysis of Factors Influencing Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Patients on Dialysis after Parathyroidectomy.Current pharmaceutical design · 2025Article
- Epicardial and liver fat implications in albuminuria: a retrospective study.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024Article
- Liver-Spleen Ratio: Can It Be Used for the Prediction of Coronary Artery Disease?Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2022Article
- Prevalence and risk factors for vascular calcification based on the ankle-brachial index in the general population: a cross-sectional study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- The Relationship of Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease and Hemodialysis Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Aortic Valve Calcium Associates with All-Cause Mortality Independent of Coronary Artery Calcium and Inflammation in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Higher Blood Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 is Related to the Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundEpicardial adipose tissue (EAT) exerts cardiopathogenic effects, but the independent association between EAT and cardiovascular (CV) calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains controversial. We therefore assessed the association between EAT, CV risk factors and CV calcifications.
methods257 patients with CKD Stage 3 and/or overt proteinuria underwent quantification of EAT, coronary artery calcification and aortic valve calcification by computed tomography. Framingham and American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC-AHA) 10-year CV event risk scores were calculated for each patient.
resultsUsing multivariable regression analysis, higher EAT was significantly associated with the majority of investigated risk factors {higher age: odds ratio [OR] 1.05/year [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02-1.08]; male sex: OR 4.03 [95% CI 2.22-7.31]; higher BMI: OR 1.28/kg/m
conclusionsThe increase of EAT can be explained by individual CV risk factors and kidney function and correlates with 10-year risk for CV event scores, suggesting that EAT is a modifiable risk factor in patients with CKD. Although EAT correlates with CV calcifications, these relations depend on CV risk factors.
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