The clinical application value of epicardial fat thickness in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease
XIAO Jian-dong
ZHANG Jun-ling
LU Yu-li
ZHANG Shu-zhi
MA Xing
ZHENG Qun
Abstract：Objective To study the applied value of epicardial fat thickness in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease.Methods 150 patients with coronary heart disease were selected, including 50 patients in single vessel disease group, 50 patients in double vessel disease group and 50 patients in multi branch lesion group. 50 healthy volunteers were selected as control group. The thickness of epicardial fat was measured by echocardiography; coronary angiography was used to determine the extent of coronary stenosis; the correlation between epicardial fat thickness and coronary artery disease was analyzed using Person correlation; using the subject characteristic curve (ROC) to analyze the diagnostic value of epicardial fat thickness in the degree and quantity of coronary artery stenosis in patients with coronary heart disease.Results The epicardial fat thickness of single-vessel disease group, double-vessel disease group and multi-vessel disease group was significantly higher than that of control group (P<0.01). With the severity of coronary heart disease, epicardial fat thickness increased significantly, the two were positively correlated (r=0.412, 0.352, 0.542, 0.593,P<0.05). The AUC values of single-vessel disease group, double-vessel disease group and multi-vessel disease group were 0.692, 0.808 and 0.831 respectively.Conclusion Epicardial fat thickness is associated with the degree of coronary artery disease in patients with coronary heart disease, which has a good diagnostic value for patients with coronary artery disease and multiple coronary artery disease.
Keywords：Coronary heart diseaseEpicardial fat thicknessCoronary angiographyEchocardiography
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 290-292,300 )