DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B8/06 A61B5/205 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: patient's epicardial fat thickness is measured by transthoracic echocardiography by means of a sector transducer at a frequency of 2,500 MHz on a free anterior wall of the right ventricle. Pulse Doppler imaging is performed to determine the diastolic function of the left ventricle - the E/A ratio measured as a transmitral blood flow velocity in the early diastolic filling of the left ventricle (E peak) to a transmitral blood flow velocity in a left auricular systole (A peak). If the epicardial fat thickness is from 2.7 to 4.5 mm, whereas the E/A diastolic function is less than 0.80, insulin resistance is diagnosed.

EFFECT: higher diagnostic accuracy, as well as wider number of individuals, who had the insulin resistance diagnosis.

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