ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2026
Perivascular fat attenuation index improves the identification of functional myocardial ischemia beyond traditional risk factors: a coronary CT angiography-derived fractional flow reserve study.
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Background: Perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) derived from coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a novel imaging biomarker of coronary inflammation. However, its incremental value in predicting functional myocardial ischemia, defined by CT-derived fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR), beyond traditional cardiovascular risk factors and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume remains unclear. Methods: A total of 380 consecutive patients who underwent clinically indicated CCTA with CT-FFR evaluation were retrospectively analyzed. Functional ischemia was defined as CT-FFR ≤0.80. Patients were stratified into low and high FAI groups based on the optimal cutoff value of -81.32 Hounsfield Units (HU). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of ischemia. The incremental diagnostic performance of adding FAI to a baseline clinical model was assessed using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), continuous net reclassification improvement (NRI), integrated discrimination improvement (IDI), and decision curve analysis (DCA). Results: Despite comparable baseline profiles for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, body mass index, and glycemic status ( Conclusions: Coronary perivascular FAI is an independent imaging marker for CT-FFR-defined functional ischemia and provides incremental value beyond traditional risk factors and EAT volume. These findings support FAI as a non-invasive marker of coronary inflammation that may refine risk stratification for functionally significant coronary artery disease. However, as CT-FFR mainly reflects epicardial physiology, the association between FAI and microvascular dysfunction remains to be determined.
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