Association of epicardial and visceral adipose tissue in relation to subclinical cardiac dysfunction in Chinese: Danyang study
Fang Yao, Lingkai Zeng, Mulian Hua, Siqi Zhang, Junya Liang, Yun Gao, Chao Chen, Xixuan Zhao, Anxia He, Ming Liu · 2023
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Fang Yao and nine co-authors published a cardiology study in twenty twenty-three on two kinds of hidden fat and the heart's quiet decline, in over fifteen hundred adults from Danyang, China. Fat around the heart and fat deep in the belly were each measured, one by ultrasound and one by electrical impedance, alongside sensitive ultrasound tests of heart function.
Men carried more belly fat but less heart fat than women, an instructive split. Both depots correlated with measures of subclinical dysfunction, the stage before symptoms. Speckle-tracking imaging caught the subtle strain changes involved. The authors argue the two fat pools are not interchangeable risks. Screening either alone would miss part of the metabolic threat to the heart.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fang Yao, Lingkai Zeng, Mulian Hua, Siqi Zhang, Junya Liang, Yun Gao, Chao Chen, Xixuan Zhao, Anxia He, Ming Liu |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |