What Can Fat Around the Heart Tell Us?
Viktor Zarev
We all know by now that too much body fat isn’t good for your heart, and new research suggests that the fat directly around your heart could play a role in your risk of coronary artery disease (CAD).
- Fat around the heart is also known as epicardial adipose tissue (EAT).
- While studies have looked at overall body fat burden as a clinical risk factor, none have tried to quantify the risk of a fatty heart until the PARADIGM registry.
Drawing data from PARADIGM, researchers followed 773 patients.