Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at high risk for macrovascular
complications, which represent the major cause of mortality. Despite effective treatment of …

High blood pressure is reported in over two-thirds of patients with type 2 diabetes, and its
development coincides with the development of hyperglycaemia. Many pathophysiological …

Insulin resistance is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes mellitus and is associated with a metabolic
and cardiovascular cluster of disorders (dyslipidaemia, hypertension, obesity [especially …

Epicardial fat (EF) is a visceral fat deposit, located between the heart and the pericardium,
which shares many of the pathophysiological properties of other visceral fat deposits, It also …

Background Dyslipoproteinemia, obesity and insulin resistance are integrative constituents
of the metabolic syndrome and are major risk factors for hypertension. The objective of this …

Introduction• Fat depots around the heart and vasculature‐Definitions‐Epicardial adipose
tissue‐Perivascular adipose tissue‐Pericardial adipose tissue• Physiological function of …

BACKGROUND: Diabetic cardiomyopathy has been characterized by an early impairment of
left ventricular (LV) longitudinal function as opposed to preserved LV radial function …

AIM: of this paper is to review the recent literature on the relationship between ectopic fat
accumulation and cardiovascular disease. DATA SYNTHESIS: Ectopic fat is an important …

BACKGROUND: Several studies using echocardiography identified epicardial adipose
tissue (EPI) as an important cardiometabolic risk marker. However, validation compared with …

Increased body weight as well as type 2 diabetes (T2D) are found to be associated with
increased incidence of hypertension, although the mechanisms facilitating hypertension in …