Relationship between visceral adipose and cardiovascular damage in the patients with metabolic syndrome
- VernacularTitle:代谢综合征患者腹内脂肪与心血管损害的关系
- Author:
Zhiqiang TIAN
;
Jing CHEN
;
Zhencheng YAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
metabolic syndrome;
adipose tissue;
cardiovascular damage
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
2001;0(08):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To analyze the relationship between the distribution of visceral adipose and cardiovascular damage in the patients with metabolic syndrome. Methods 108 in-patients were categorized according to the diseases, they were suffering from into metabolic syndrome group (MS, 70 cases), essential hypertension group (EH, 22 cases), and type 2 diabetes mellitus group (T2DM, 16 cases). The areas of both visceral adipose (VA) and subcutaneous adipose (SA) were measured for all the three groups, and then VA/SA was calculated. The relationship of the above variables with left ventricular mass (LVM), LVM-index (LVMI) intima-medial thickness (IMT) of carotid artery, and myocardial ischemia was analysed. Results Compared with T2DM and EH groups, the area with VA was significantly larger in MS group (P
