Epicardial fat volume and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases among women and men from the general population

Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2022 Feb 9;28(18):e14-e16. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaa026.

Adela Brahimaj^{1

2}, Fariba Ahmadizar¹, Meike Willemijn Vernooij^{1

3}, Mohammad Kamran Ikram^{1

4}, Mohammad Arfan Ikram^{1

3

4}, Theo van Walsum⁵, Abbas Dehghan^{1

6}, Oscar Horacio Franco^{1

7}, Daniel Bos^{1

3

8}, Maryam Kavousi¹

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, office Na-2714 PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
² Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁵ Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Department Of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁷ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁸ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular diseases; Epicardial fat; Gender-specific risk; Obesity; Type 2 diabetes.

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