Association of pericardial adipose tissue with left ventricular structure and function: a region-specific effect?
Jin-Seok KimSeon Won KimJong Seok LeeSeung Ku LeeRobert AbbottKi Yeol LeeHong Euy LimKi-Chul SungGoo-Yeong ChoKwang Kon KohSun H KimChol ShinSeong Hwan KimPublished in: Cardiovascular diabetology (2021)
PAT was associated with subclinical LV structural and functional deterioration, and these associations were independent of and stronger than with general and abdominal obesity measures.
Keyphrases
- adipose tissue
- insulin resistance
- left ventricular
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- type diabetes
- heart failure
- high fat diet
- high fat diet induced
- acute myocardial infarction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- skeletal muscle
- coronary artery disease
- left atrial
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- atrial fibrillation
- aortic valve