The observed increases in concentrations of inflammatory factors in patients who have undergone coronary artery ... tissue could serve as a reliable marker of visceral adiposity. Epicardial ...

"Your typical mouse doesn't naturally have that perivascular adipose tissue outside of the artery," he explains. "We found that disease and buildup formed right inside of the artery next to the ...

CYP1B1 is highly expressed in adipose tissue and overexpressed in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells in patients with PAH. The location of adipose tissue can also contribute to the development ...

Imaging epicardial adipose tissue, or the layer of fat around the heart, can provide extra information compared with standard diagnostic techniques such as coronary artery calcium scoring.

“When things affect fat, it affects our entire body.” Body fat, or adipose tissue, is a complex organ. It contains fat cells, nerves, immune cells, and connective tissue. Its main job is to ...

Previous research suggests that fat tissue surrounding the heart's arteries (perivascular adipose tissue, or PVAT) plays a role in arterial stiffness - even in people without heart failure ...

more diffuse coronary artery disease compared with patients without visceral adiposity. . . . Thus, our data suggest that the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue may contribute to the ...

Measuring coronary inflammation with CT imaging improves long-term risk assessment following percutaneous coronary ...

large cohort study looked at the cardiovascular effect of epicardial and pericardial adipose tissue (EPAT) using AI modeling and genetic determinants and found that the quantity of EPAT was predictive ...