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( Irem Kirac Utku ),( Yildiz Okuturlar ),( Esra Demir ),( Ozlem Harmankaya ),( Bulent Demir ),( Gonul Aciksari ),( Turgut Uygun ),( Alev Kural ),( Hanise Ozkan ),( Meral Mert ),( Abaki Kumbasar ) 대한내과학회 2014 대한내과학회 추계학술발표논문집 Vol.2014 No.1
Background: Metabolic syndrome is a systemic disorder and manifests a group of conditions such as abdominal obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, coronary artery diseases. The importance of epicardial adipose tissue recognized its contribution to inflammation by pro-inflammatory cytokines discharge has been proved. Several investigations were performed on vitamin D receptor in different tissues except bone. In this study the epicardial adipose tissue thickness (EATT) and the levels of vitamin D were measured and compared with healthy control group. Methods: A total of 148 patients (84 patients who had metabolic syndrome without diabetes and 64 healthy individuals) were enrolled into the study. In all patients, the EATT was calculated by ecocardiography and the level of serum 25(OH) vitamin D was monitored. Results: It has been observed that the EATT in patients with metabolic syndrome increases significiantly compared with healthy control group (p<0.001). No significant difference between patients and control group was found on the levels of 25 (OH) vitamin D (p=0.507). There was no correlation between 25 (OH) vitamin D and the EATT (p=0.622). Conclusion: We observed that the EATT increased in patients with metabolic syndrome. In contradiction to the literature; the levels of 25(OH) vitamin D has not been found high in patients with metabolic syndrome. The reason of this can be small number of patients in our study. A significant correlation was not found between the EATT and the levels of 25 (OH) vitamin D. Further studies with a larger patient population are required assess the relationship.