Epicardial adipose tissue measured from analysis of adipose tissue area using chest CT imaging is the best potential predictor of COVID-19 severity

Centrilobular Emphysema Is Associated with Pectoralis Muscle Reduction in Current Smokers without Airflow Limitation

(2023) Tomoki Maetani et al.   RESPIRATION

Epicardial adipose tissue density is a better predictor of cardiometabolic risk in HFpEF patients: a prospective cohort study

(2023) Jie Liu et al.   Cardiovascular Diabetology

Characteristics and clinical effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in hospitalized patients in Omicron-dominated epidemic wave – a nationwide study in Japan

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Habitual Physical Activity and Dietary Profiles in Older Japanese Males with Normal-Weight Obesity

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Epicardial adipose tissue thickness is associated with increased COVID-19 severity and mortality

(2022) Roopa Mehta et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Editorial: Obesity, metabolic phenotypes and COVID-19

(2022) Despina Sanoudou et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

The predictive value of epicardial fat volume for clinical severity of COVID-19

(2022) Mehmet Akif Erdöl et al.   Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Association of epicardial adipose tissue with the severity and adverse clinical outcomes of COVID-19: A meta-analysis

(2022) Kaiwei Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Effects of mild obesity on outcomes in Japanese patients with COVID-19: a nationwide consortium to investigate COVID-19 host genetics

(2022) Ho Lee et al.   Nutrition & Diabetes

Clinical significance of prediabetes, undiagnosed diabetes and diagnosed diabetes on critical outcomes in COVID‐19: Integrative analysis from the Japan COVID ‐19 task force

(2022) Takahiro Fukushima et al.   DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM

Epicardial adipose tissue volume and CT-attenuation as prognostic factors for pulmonary embolism and mortality in critically ill patients affected by COVID-19

(2022) Andrea P. Rossi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Comparison of epicardial adipose tissue volume quantification between ECG-gated cardiac and non-ECG-gated chest computed tomography scans

(2022) Yuancheng Xu et al.   BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Impact of clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease as assessed by coronary artery calcium in COVID-19

(2021) Alessandra Scoccia et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Coronary artery calcification and epicardial adipose tissue as independent predictors of mortality in COVID-19

(2021) Leandro Slipczuk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING

Epicardial adipose tissue characteristics, obesity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: a post-hoc analysis of a prospective cohort study

(2021) Caterina Conte et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Cardiac adipose tissue volume and IL-6 level at admission are complementary predictors of severity and short-term mortality in COVID-19 diabetic patients

(2021) Franck Phan et al.   Cardiovascular Diabetology

Epicardial adipose tissue and severe Coronavirus Disease 19

(2021) Hélène Bihan et al.   Cardiovascular Diabetology

Impact of visceral fat on the prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019: an observational cohort study

(2021) Hiroaki Ogata et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Association of body composition parameters measured on CT with risk of hospitalization in patients with Covid-19

(2021) Hersh Chandarana et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Does epicardial fat contribute to COVID-19 myocardial inflammation?

(2020) Alexis Elias Malavazos et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Obesity predisposes to the risk of higher mortality in young COVID‐19 patients

(2020) Fengqin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Morbid Obesity as an Independent Risk Factor for COVID‐19 Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Younger than 50

(2020) Eyal Klang et al.   Obesity

Is Adipose Tissue a Reservoir for Viral Spread, Immune Activation, and Cytokine Amplification in Coronavirus Disease 2019?

(2020) Paul MacDaragh Ryan et al.   Obesity

SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Cardiovascular Disease: COVID-19 Heart

(2020) Bishnu P. Dhakal et al.   Heart Lung and Circulation

Visceral fat shows the strongest association with the need of intensive Care in Patients with COVID-19

(2020) Mikiko Watanabe et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Visceral adipose tissue in patients with COVID-19: risk stratification for severity

(2020) Hersh Chandarana et al.   Abdominal Radiology

Obesity is a potential risk factor contributing to clinical manifestations of COVID-19

(2020) Zhenyu Kang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Higher ACE2 expression levels in epicardial cells than subcutaneous stromal cells from patients with cardiovascular disease: Diabetes and obesity as possible enhancer

(2020) Marinela Couselo‐Seijas et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Epicardial adipose tissue, inflammatory biomarkers and COVID-19: Is there a possible relationship?

(2020) Alireza Abrishami et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY

Visceral adipose tissue area predicts intensive care unit admission in COVID-19 patients

(2020) Federica Pediconi et al.   Obesity Research & Clinical Practice

Epicardial adipose tissue is associated with extent of pneumonia and adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19

(2020) Kajetan Grodecki et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Letter to the Editor: Obesity, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease are proinflammatory hypercoagulable states associated with severe disease and thrombosis in Covid-19

(2020) Dong Ji et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Visceral fat is associated to the severity of COVID-19

(2020) Guillaume Favre et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Visceral and ectopic fat, atherosclerosis, and cardiometabolic disease: a position statement

(2019) Ian J Neeland et al.   Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Perivascular adipose tissue and coronary atherosclerosis

(2018) Jennifer Mancio et al.   HEART

Estimation of Skeletal Muscle Mass and Visceral Adipose Tissue Volume by a Single Magnetic Resonance Imaging Slice in Healthy Elderly Adults

(2016) Lisa Schweitzer et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Association Between Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Depots and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Risk FactorsCLINICAL PERSPECTIVE

(2015) Tobin M. Abraham et al.   CIRCULATION

Local and systemic effects of the multifaceted epicardial adipose tissue depot

(2015) Gianluca Iacobellis   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Contemporary methods of body composition measurement

(2014) Marie Ø. Fosbøl et al.   CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING

Conflicting Role of Sarcopenia and Obesity in Male Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

(2014) Hyeon-Kyoung Koo et al.   PLoS One

Mechanism linking diabetes mellitus and obesity

(2014) Abdullah Algoblan et al.   Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity-Targets and Therapy

Association of Epicardial Fat With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Incident Myocardial Infarction in the General Population

(2013) Amir A. Mahabadi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

(2013) Jorge Zagaceta et al.   PLoS One

Body Fat Distribution and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

(2012) Jean-Pierre Després   CIRCULATION

Pericardial Fat Is Associated With Impaired Lung Function and a Restrictive Lung Pattern in Adults

(2011) DeMarc A. Hickson et al.   CHEST

Single-slice epicardial fat area measurement: do we need to measure the total epicardial fat volume?

(2011) Noriko Oyama et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Relation of Echocardiographic Epicardial Fat Thickness and Myocardial Fat

(2010) Alexis Elias Malavazos et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY