The Role of Echocardiography in the Assessment of Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a metabolically active visceral fat depot implicated in cardiometabolic and cardiovascular (CV) disease. Although cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and cardiac computed tomography (cCT) enable accurate volumetric quantification of EAT, their cost, limited availability, and—particularly...