Association of Cardiovascular Health with Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Intima Media Thickness: The Kardiovize Study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/18:00104138

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/7/5/113/htm" target="_blank" >http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/7/5/113/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7050113" target="_blank" >10.3390/jcm7050113</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Association of Cardiovascular Health with Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Intima Media Thickness: The Kardiovize Study

Original language description

Background: Intima-media thickness (IMT) has been proposed as a measurement of subclinical atherosclerosis and has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a fat depot between the pericardium and myocardium and has been associated with coronary atherosclerosis. The relationship between IMT and EAT thickness has not been reported before. We investigated the relationship between EAT thickness, IMT, CVD risk factors, and ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics using subjects from the Kardiovize Brno 2030 cohort study, a random urban sample population in Central Europe. Methods: We studied 102 individuals (65 males) aged 25-64 years (median = 37 years) with no current or past CVD history. We measured IMT using a vascular ultrasound and EAT thickness using transthoracic echocardiography, and collected data on anthropometric factors, CVD risk factors, and CVH score. Correlation tests and multiple linear regression models were applied. Results: In the age- and gender-adjusted model, we demonstrated that, among CVD risk factors, only BMI was significantly and positively associated with EAT thickness ( = 0.182, SE = 0.082, p = 0.030), while no significant associations with IMT were evident. Although both EAT thickness and IMT were negatively correlated with CVH score (r = -0.45, p &lt; 0.001, and r = -0.38, p &lt; 0.001, respectively), we demonstrated that overall CVH score (beta = -0.262; SE = 0.077; p = 0.001), as well as BMI (beta = -1.305; SE = 0.194; p &lt; 0.001) and blood pressure CVH metrics (beta = -0.607; SE = 0.206; p = 0.004) were significantly associated with EAT thickness but not with IMT. Conclusions: Our study is important as it demonstrated for the first time that CVH is associated with EAT thickness. Interestingly, this relationship seems to be dependent on BMI and blood pressure rather than on the other CVH metrics. However, outcome-driven studies are required to confirm these findings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30218 - General and internal medicine

Project

<a href="/en/project/LQ1605" target="_blank" >LQ1605: Translational Medicine</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE

ISSN

2077-0383

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000435194400026

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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