CLINICAL APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF EPICARDIAL FAT TISSUE IN OBESITY

Российский кардиологический журнал

M. A. Druzhilov¹  G. A. Chumakova²  N. G. Veselovskaya³  T. Yu. Kuznetsova⁴ 

[1]Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases

[2]Altai State Medical University of theMinistry of Health

[3]Medical and Sanitary Institution of FSS Head in Karelia Republic

[4]Petrozavodsk State University

关键词: visceral obesity;    epicardial adipous tissue;    epicardial fat thickness;    cardiovascular risk;   

DOI  :  10.15829/1560-4071-2017-4-81-87

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A historical meaning of obesity verified by body mass index as an obligatory factor for cardiovascular risk, is being refuted during recent decades by the results from epidemiological and prospective studies. The visceral obesity itself is etiopathogenetically associated with the processes of cardiovascular remodeling and development of obesity-related cardiovascular diseases. Of the methods to help better predict cardiometabolic risk in obesity the direct assessment of visceral fat tissue are known, of those the most available is echocardiographic measurement of epicardial fat thickness. In the article, the echocardiographically defined epicardial fat thickness is regarded as possible instrument for prediction of cardiovascular risk in a variety of obese patients.

【 授权许可】

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