Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with impaired glucose metabolism, either prediabetes (preD) or type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular events. Recent studies have shown a relationship between epicardial fat and myocardial ischemia.Objective: To determine whether hepatic fibrosis assessed by liver elastography (LE) or Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) score correlates with epicardial fat volume quantified by computed tomo...