Epicardial adipose tissue volume is an independent predictor of mortality in PAH. An increase in epicardial adipose tissue volume in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an ...

Lean wild animals have at least as much epicardial fat as domesticated animals and this tissue is not depleted during starvation. [24] Epicardial fat might, therefore, have important functions ...

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) accumulation is thought to play a role in the pathophysiology of heart failure (HF) with mid‐range ejection fraction and HF with preserved ejection fraction, but its ...

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Our hearts are naturally surrounded by a layer of fat known as “epicardial adipose tissue.” In healthy people, this fat is protective and vital for heart function. But in some people ...

Led by Dr. Frederick H. Epstein of UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, the researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to analyze the composition of epicardial adipose tissue – the ...

Our hearts are naturally surrounded by a layer of fat known as "epicardial adipose tissue." In healthy people, this fat is protective and vital for heart function. But in some people, particularly ...

Now, University of Virginia researchers have invented a revolutionary MRI technique that allows them to study this enigmatic tissue in unprecedented detail, potentially opening new frontiers in ...

This month's cover highlights the article A novel bacterial effector protein mediates ER-LD membrane contacts to regulate host lipid droplets by Stacey D. Gilk, Rajendra Angara and Arif Sadi. The ...