USEFULNESS OF PERICORONARY FAT RATIO AS A STRONG PREDICTOR FOR CORONARY PLAQUE VULNERABILITY COMPARED TO EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE MEASURED BY CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 67; no. 13; p. 1747
• Main Authors: Okubo, Ryo, Toda, Mikihito, Watanabe, Ippei, Yabe, Takayuki, Amano, Hideo, Nakanishi, Rine, Takanori, Ikeda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 05.04.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Cardiology; Cardiovascular; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary vessels; Heart attacks; Internal Medicine; Medical imaging

In multivariate logistic analysis, the third tertile of pericoronary fat ratio (OR: 1.86, 95% CI: 1.19-9.94, p = 0.02) was the independent predictor for high risk plaque on CCTA after adjusting for age, gender, known CAD and LDL cholesterol, while mean EAT thickness was not (OR: 1.06, 95% CI: 0.72-1...