Relationship Between Waist Circumference, Epicardial Fat Thickness, and Genders

Relationship Between Neck Circumference and Epicardial Fat Thickness in a Healthy Male Population

Background: Epicardial fat is an upper body visceral fat depot that may play a significant role in the development of adverse metabolic and cardiovascular risk profiles. There is a significant direct relationship between the amount of epicardial fat and general body adiposity (body mass index, BMI), but data regarding subcutaneous adiposity is limited. Objective: We conducted a study to deter...

The relationship between epicardial fat thickness and gestational diabetes mellitus

AIM Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with cardiovascular diseases; however, the relationship between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and GDM remains unclear. The present study evaluates and compares EFT using transthoracic echocardiography in pregnant women with GDM. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included 129 pregnant women in the third trimester: 65 with GD...

Does the relationship between waist circumference, morbidity and mortality depend on measurement protocol for waist circumference?

There is currently no consensus regarding the optimal protocol for measurement of waist circumference (WC), and no scientific rationale is provided for any of the WC protocols recommended by leading health authorities. A panel of experts conducted a systematic review of 120 studies (236 samples) to determine whether measurement protocol influenced the relationship of WC with morbidity of cardio...

Relationship between waist circumference and elevation of carotid intima-media thickness in newly-diagnosed diabetic patients.

OBJECTIVE Waist circumference, as a brief indicator of visceral obesity, is associated with multi-metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The present study was aimed to find out the relationship between waist circumference and carotid intima media thickness (C-IMT), as well as the best waist circumference cutoff for identifying C-IMT elevation in Chinese male patients with newly-diagno...

Relation between epicardial fat thickness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease