Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate

Regitse H. Christensen; Bernt J. Von Scholten; Christian S. Hansen; Sarah E. Heywood; Jaya B. Rosenmeier; Ulrik B. Andersen; Peter Hovind; Henrik Reinhard; Hans Henrik Parving; Bente K. Pedersen; Marit E. Jørgensen; Peter K. Jacobsen; Peter Rossing

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Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate

Regitse H. Christensen^*, Bernt J. Von Scholten, Christian S. Hansen, Sarah E. Heywood, Jaya B. Rosenmeier, Ulrik B. Andersen, Peter Hovind, Henrik Reinhard, Hans Henrik Parving, Bente K. Pedersen, Marit E. Jørgensen, Peter K. Jacobsen, Peter Rossing

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Background We evaluated the association of cardiac adipose tissue including epicardial adipose tissue and pericardial adipose tissue with incident cardiovascular disease and mortality, coronary artery calcium, carotid intima media thickness and inflammatory markers. Design A prospective study of 200 patients with type 2 diabetes and elevated urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER). Methods Cardiac adipose tissue was measured from baseline echocardiography. The composite endpoint comprised incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Coronary artery calcium, carotid intima media thickness and inflammatory markers were measured at baseline. Cardiac adipose tissue was investigated as continuous and binary variable. Analyses were performed unadjusted (model 1), and adjusted for age, sex (model 2), body mass index, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, smoking, glycated haemoglobin, and systolic blood pressure (model 3). Results Patients were followed-up after 6.1 years for non-fatal cardiovascular disease (n = 29) or mortality (n = 23). Cardiac adipose tissue (p = 0.049) and epicardial adipose tissue (p = 0.029) were associated with cardiovascular disease and mortality in model 1. When split by the median, patients with high cardiac adipose tissue had a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality than patients with low cardiac adipose tissue in unadjusted (hazard ratio 1.9, confidence interval: 1.1; 3.4, p = 0.027) and adjusted (hazard ratio 2.0, confidence interval: 1.1; 3.7, p = 0.017) models. Cardiac adipose tissue (p = 0.033) was associated with baseline coronary artery calcium (model 1) and interleukin-8 (models 1-3, all p < 0.039). Conclusions In type 2 diabetes patients without coronary artery disease, high cardiac adipose tissue levels were associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease or all-cause mortality even after accounting for traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors. High cardiac adipose tissue amounts were associated with subclinical atherosclerosis (coronary artery calcium) and with the pro-atherogenic inflammatory marker interleukin-8.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Volume	24
Issue number	14
Pages (from-to)	1517-1524
ISSN	2047-4873
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487317717820
Publication status	Published - 2017

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cardiovascular disease
coronary artery calcium
epicardial fat
pericardial fat
Type 2 diabetes

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Christensen, R. H., Von Scholten, B. J., Hansen, C. S., Heywood, S. E., Rosenmeier, J. B., Andersen, U. B., Hovind, P., Reinhard, H., Parving, H. H., Pedersen, B. K., Jørgensen, M. E., Jacobsen, P. K., & Rossing, P. (2017). Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 24(14), 1517-1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487317717820

Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate. / Christensen, Regitse H.; Von Scholten, Bernt J.; Hansen, Christian S. et al.

In: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Vol. 24, No. 14, 2017, p. 1517-1524.

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Christensen, RH, Von Scholten, BJ, Hansen, CS, Heywood, SE, Rosenmeier, JB, Andersen, UB, Hovind, P, Reinhard, H, Parving, HH, Pedersen, BK, Jørgensen, ME, Jacobsen, PK & Rossing, P 2017, 'Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate', European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, vol. 24, no. 14, pp. 1517-1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487317717820

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Epicardial, pericardial and total cardiac fat and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion rate

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