Epicardial Adipose Tissue Predicts Severe Mitral Annular Calcification in Patients Aged ≥60 Years.

CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that EAT is an independent predictor for the presence of severe MAC. Routine echocardiographic assessment of EAT is a cheap and noninvasive method for evaluating patient cardiovascular risk classification. PMID: 32388532 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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