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Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Myocardial Disease: From Physiology to Heart Failure Phenotypes.
Current problems in cardiology - 1 Oct 2023
Antonopoulos Alexios S, Papastamos Charalampos, Cokkinos Dennis V, Tsioufis Konstantinos, Tousoulis Dimitris
Abstract excerpt
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is increasingly being recognized as a determinant of myocardial biology. The EAT-heart crosstalk suggests causal links between dysfunctional EAT and cardiomyocyte impairment. Obesity promotes EAT dysfunction and shifts in secreted adipokines which adversely affect cardiac metabolism, induce cardiomyocyte inflammation, redox imbalance and myocardial fibrosis. Thus, EAT determines...
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