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Table 1 Patients’ clinical and demographic data

From: Relationships between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and adipo-fibrokine indicator profiles post-myocardial infarction

Parameter

Patients without visceral obesity, n = 29

Patients with visceral obesity, n = 59

p value

Age, years, mean (range)

56.0 (51.5–63.5)

58.50 (53.0–63.0)

0.710

Male gender, n (%)

20 (68.9)

45 (76.2)

0.613

BMI, kg/m2, mean (range)

25.9 (18.3–38.4)

28.7 (171–39.1)

0.005

Abdominal obesity area, cm2, mean (range)

357 (253–623)

541 (381–725)

0.00

VAT, cm2, mean (range)

108 (64–124)

197 (145–301)

0.00

SAT, cm2, mean (range)

253 (159–498)

316 (201–501)

0.00

VAT/SAT, mean (range)

0.42 (0.24–0.40)

0.62 (0.60–0.72)

0.00

Documented arterial hypertension, n (%)

19 (65.5)

40 (67.7)

0.109

Smoking, n (%)

16 (55.1)

29 (49.1)

0.207

Family history of CAD, n (%)

1 (3.4)

2 (3.4)

0.644

Hypercholesterolemia, n (%)

5 (17.2)

16 (27.1)

0.02

Clinical signs and symptoms of angina before MI, n (%)

21 (72.4)

40 (67.7)

0.023

Chronic heart failure before MI, n (%)

24 (82.7)

47 (79.7)

0.02

Prior MI, n (%)

0

3 (5.0)

 

Documented diabetes mellitus, n (%)

1 (3.4)

10 (16.9)

0.006

Type of acute coronary syndrome

 Q-wave MI, with ST-segment elevation, n (%)

2 (6.9)

3 (5.0)

0.125

 Non-Q-wave MI, with ST-segment elevation, n (%)

27 (93.1)

56 (95.0)

0.18

Acute heart failure (Killip classification)

 Class I, n (%)

22 (75.8)

52 (88.1)

0.541

 Class II, n (%)

2 (6.8)

8 (13.5)

0.035

 Class III, n (%)

1 (3.4)

0

–

 Class IV, n (%)

0

0

–

  1. BMI body mass index, VAT visceral adipose tissue, SAT subcutaneous adipose tissue, CAD coronary artery disease, MI myocardial infarction