Epicardial adipose tissue is associated with increased systolic pulmonary artery pressure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Ezgi KalaycıoğluMustafa ÇetinGöksel ÇinierAli Gökhan Özyıldızİsmet DurmuşTuncay KırışTayyar GökdenizPublished in: The clinical respiratory journal (2020)
EAT thickness in COPD patients with preserved left ventricular systolic function is associated with increased PAPs, and this association is independent of the parameters indicating the severity of COPD.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- pulmonary artery
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- adipose tissue
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- heart failure
- lung function
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- blood pressure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- acute myocardial infarction
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- optical coherence tomography
- insulin resistance
- high fat diet
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery disease
- metabolic syndrome