Key result
Systolic echocardiographic EAT thickness strongly correlates with CT-derived EAT volume.
Why the study?
CT is costly and time consuming for assessing adipose tissue distribution, creating a need for less expensive, informative methods to visualize visceral obesity and epicardial adipose tissue.
Does epicardial adipose tissue thickness measured by echocardiography correlate with CT-derived volumes and predict LV diastolic dysfunction in young adults with abdominal obesity?
Population
104 patients aged 1845 years with abdominal obesity
Comparison
EAT thickness measured by echocardiography vs adipose tissue distribution and LV parameters
Authors
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Echo EAT thickness may serve as low-cost CT surrogate in obese youth; leaves open predictive utility for diastolic dysfunction.
Cross-Sectional (n=104)
Does epicardial adipose tissue thickness measured by echocardiography correlate with CT-derived volumes and predict LV diastolic dysfunction in young adults with abdominal obesity?
Effect estimate: r=0.85
p-value: p=0.05
Echocardiography-measured epicardial adipose tissue thickness correlates strongly with CT-measured volume and can serve as a less expensive marker to identify patients at risk for LV diastolic dysfunction.
Blinova et al. (2021) conducted a cross-sectional in abdominal obesity (n=104). Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness measured by echocardiography was evaluated on Correlation between EAT thickness measured by echocardiography and EAT volume measured by multispiral CT (r=0.85, p=0.05). Epicardial adipose tissue thickness measured by echocardiography in systole strongly correlated with EAT volume measured by multispiral CT (r=0.85, p=0.05).