Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is defined as high TSH accompanied with normal free thyroxine (FT4). SH has found to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and increased mortality. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is now considered to be a new noninvasive measurement method used for the early detection of CVD susceptibility. EAT has vasocrine and paracrine actions which lead to CVD. We aimed to evaluate measurement of EAT and to detect relationsh...