Objective To investigate the relationship between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness and arteriosclerosis index of plasma (AIP) in patients with overweight type 2 diabetes. Methods From January 2018 to November 2020, 139 patients with T2DM in the Department of Endocrinology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University were selected and divided into the normal body mass group (NW, 76 cases, BMI:18.5~23.9 kg/m2) and super-recombination (OW, 63 cases, BMI:24~27.9 kg/m2) according to the body mass index (BMI). The clinical and biochemical indicators of the two groups of patients were detected and compared. The EAT thickness of the two groups was detected by echocardiography. Pearson correlation and multiple stepwise linear regression were used to analyze the EAT thickness, the ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes (NLR), and the ratio of platelets to lymphocytes (PLR) and the relationship between AIP.Results ①Body mass, BMI, TG, FCP, WBC, L, NLR, PLR, AIP, EAT in OW group were higher than those in NW group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05); there was no significant difference in other clinical and biochemical indexes.②Pearson correlation analysis showed that EAT thickness was positively correlated with age, BMI, TG and AIP (r=0.394, 0.277, 0.371, 0.333, P<0.01), and negatively correlated with high density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) (r=-0.079, P<0.05).AIP was positively correlated with BMI, WBC, N, NLR, PLR, TG, blood uric acid (UA) and EAT thickness (r=0.590, 0.223, 0.221, 0.289, 0.226, P<0.05 or P<0.01), and negatively correlated with HDL-C (r=-0.459, P<0.05).AIP in OW group was positively correlated with BMI, NLR, PLR, TG, UA and EAT thickness (r=0.170, 0.329, 0.423, 0.832, 0.309, 0.531, P<0.05 or P<0.01), and negatively correlated with HDL-C and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C) (r=-0.459, -0.354, P<0.01).③Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis showed that AIP was associated with BMI (β=0.538, P=0.018, 95%CI:0.097~0.979), EAT thickness (β=4.162, P=1.026, 95%CI:2.019~6.212), TG (β=0.159, P<0.001, 95%CI:0.131~0.187) in OW group.Conclusion The thickness of EAT increases in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes. EAT thickness, TG and BMI are risk factors for AIP. |