Objective: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) quantity is associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes. However, the quality of EAT may be of incremental prognostic value. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for tissue characterization but has never been applied for EAT quality assessment. We aimed to investigate EAT quality measured on CMR T1 mapping as a predictor of poor outcomes in an all-comer cohort.
Methods: We investigated the association of EAT area and EAT T1 times (EAT-T1) with a composite endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction, heart failure hospitalization, and all-cause death.
Results: A total of 966 participants were included (47.2% female; mean age: 58.4 years) in this prospective observational CMR registry. Mean EAT area and EAT-T1 were 7.3 cm and 268 ms, respectively. On linear regression, EAT-T1 was not associated with markers of obesity, dyslipidemia, or comorbidities such as diabetes (p > 0.05 for all). During a follow-up of 57.7 months, a total of 280 (29.0%) events occurred. EAT-T1 was independently associated (adjusted hazard ratio per SD: 1.202; 95% CI: 1.022-1.413; p = 0.026) with the composite endpoint when adjusted for established clinical risk.
Conclusions: EAT quality (as assessed via CMR T1 times), but not EAT quantity, is independently associated with a composite endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction, heart failure hospitalization, and all-cause death.
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