Researchers at Cleveland clinic, University of Oxford, and University of Erlangen have discovered a novel imaging biomarker which can predict cardiac mortality by measuring the inflammation of fatty tissues. They have developed the perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) as an imaging biomarker to quantify inflammation. This new technology may be useful in preventing and detecting patients at risk for future fatal heart attack. Manifesting primarily as heart attacks and strokes, CVDs according to WHO takes the life of 17.7 million people every year.
Cardiovascular disease in India have increased to about 26% from 1990 to 2016. In India alone; around 272 per 1,00,000 of the population have CVDs. Recent advances in research have established the role of inflammation in the mediation of CVDs. Inflammation of coronary artery has shown to prevent the formation of perivascular fat.…
