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. 2021 Jan 15;7:607825. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.607825

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Copyright © 2021 Maimaituxun, Kusunose, Yamada, Fukuda, Yagi, Torii, Yamada, Soeki, Masuzaki, Sata and Shimabukuro.

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Representative measurements of global longitudinal strain (GLS), in patients with lower and higher epicardial adipose tissue volume (EATV). EAT measurements was manually placed (A,B) along the visceral pericardium; (C,D) the EAT area was automatically acquired as a density range between −190 and −30 HU in cardiac computed tomography. Compared with the lower EATV group (A), with the group with higher EATV (B) had an impaired GLS (−19.84 vs. −14.93%), despite other clinical parameters being similar.