Evaluation of epicardial adipose tissue and carotid intima-media thickness as a marker of atherosclerosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Nergiz Ekmen Güray Can Ahmet Yozgat Hatice Can Muahammet Fatih Bayraktar Muhammed Emin Demirkol Meral Akdoğan Kayhan Hadi Sasani

Published in: Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva (2021)

IBD is associated with an increased thickness of EAT and CIMT. Chronic inflammation in IBD may increase the risk of atherosclerotic heart disease. Thus, only measuring the thickness of EAT and CIMT can be used as an objective, easy, simple, affordable, non-invasive and accessible assessment method in order to screen for this risk.

Keyphrases

optical coherence tomography
patients with inflammatory bowel disease
adipose tissue
oxidative stress
cardiovascular disease
pulmonary hypertension
high throughput
insulin resistance
ulcerative colitis
skeletal muscle
breast cancer risk