Why the study?
Do epicardial adipose tissue and carotid intima-media thickness correlate with the presence of ischaemic heart disease in an Indian population?
Do epicardial adipose tissue and carotid intima-media thickness correlate with the presence of ischaemic heart disease in an Indian population?
This study aims to evaluate the utility of epicardial adipose tissue and carotid intima-media thickness as markers for coronary artery disease in an Indian population.
Suggests epicardial fat and carotid thickness may serve as noninvasive risk markers for coronary.
Early diagnosis can be an important measure to reduce the CAD-related morbidity and mortality. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is one such measure which has been validated as a surrogate marker for subclinical atherosclerosis and is used for early detection of accelerated disease process and subclinical disease. Over the past decade, epicardial fat thickness has generated interest as a marker for atherosclerosis, after being found to have a strong association with visceral obesity. At the same time, other studies have questioned the association. There is paucity of data for epicardial fat thickness as a marker for atherosclerosis in Indian population. This study tries to explore the relationship between coronary artery disease and the two markers of atherosclerosis-Carotid intima-media thickness and Epicardial Fat.
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