Relation between epicardial fat thickness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Relation between epicardial fat thickness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Relationship between metabolic syndrome and epicardial fat tissue thickness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

OBJECTIVE An increase in epicardial fat tissue (EFT) thickness was found to be associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) and ischemic heart disease. MS is a comorbidity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) resulting from the accompanying systemic inflammation. The aim of our study was to investigate the usefulness of EFT thickness to predict MS in COPD patients. METHODS COPD patients...

Determination of The Relationship Between Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. The concomitant occurrence of COPD and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is named overlap syndrome. This study aimed to evaluate the severity of OSAHS in overlap syndrome patients.Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with forced...

The relation between epicardial fat thickness and metabolic syndrome

We read the article Usefulness of the epicardial fat tissue thickness as a diagnostic criterion for geriatric patients with metabolic syndrome by Kaya, et al. The authors aimed to evaluate the epicardial fat tissue thickness (EFT) as a diagnostic criterion for geriatric patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). They concluded that EFT levels were higher in geriatric patients with MetS and can th...

The Relation between Epicardial Fat Thickness and Prognostic Risk Scores

Dear Editor, We read the article ”The Relationship between GRACE Score and Epicardial Fat Thickness(EFT) in non-STEMI Patients” by Gul et al.1 The authors concluded that endsystolic and end-diastolic EFTs were found to be increased in the higher GRACE group. Several risk scores including have been evaluated so as to identify high/low risk of mortality or complications in patients with STEMI. Th...