Epicardial fat thickness and cardiovascular involvements.

Epicardial fat thickness and cardiovascular involvements.

Dear Editor, We have read the article ” Epicardial fat thickness(EFT) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis” written by Erdem et al. with a great interest.1 The authors aimed to explain the relationship between epicardial fat thickness and clinical and echocardiographic parameters in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. They concluded that EFT as an indicator of cardiovascular involvement was hi...

4508-4515-Epicardial fat thickness and COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of lung disease characterized by progressive development of obstructed airflow and an increased chronic inflammatory response in the airways1. COPD is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide2. The BODE index, is an important prognostic predictor of COPD, and is a multidimensional scoring system, combining information about variou...

Epicardial Fat Thickness and its Association with Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Previous studies have clearly shown that epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) mass is associated with increased incidence of coronary artery disease. In the present study, the relationship between the EAT volume measured by cardiac multislice computerized tomography (MSCT) and cardiovascular risk was investigated in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ninety type 2 diabetic patients and 62 healt...

Relation between epicardial fat thickness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Epicardial Fat Tissue Thickness in Preeclamptic and Normal Pregnancies

Background. Epicardial fat tissue, another form of visceral adiposity, has been proposed as a new cardiometabolic risk factor, and the possible association of epicardial fat with hypertension has been shown in some recent studies. Although epicardial fat thickness (EFT) is associated with hypertension, the relationship between preeclampsia and EFT is still unknown. The purpose of this paper is ...