Comparison of coronary artery lesion complexity and body component parameters measured by TANITA.

Introduction: Obesity is one of the main reversible causes of coronary artery disease.

Aim: To investigate the relationship between body component measurements calculated with TANITA and SYNTAX score (SXscore), which indicates coronary complexity.

Material and methods: 200 acute subendocardial myocardial infarction patients were included in our study. Body component measurements were made with the TANITA BC-601 device. After coronary angiography, patients were divided into two groups: high SXscore (≥ 22) and low-medium SXscore (< 22).

Results: When the high SXscore group (50 patients) was compared with the low medium SXscore group (150 patients); for waist height ratio (p = 0.001), total fat weight (p = 0.001), total fat percentage (p = 0.006), total water percentage (p = 0.001), trunk fat percentage (p = 0.001), internal fat (p = 0.001) and metabolic age (p < 0.001), a statistical difference was found. In the correlation analysis, a correlation was detected between high SXscore and the waist height ratio (p = 0.042), trunk fat percentage (p = 0.047), internal fat (p < 0.001) and metabolic age (p = 0.009). ROC curve analysis for prediction of high SXscore detection; the cut-off value for internal fat and metabolic age was found to be 13.5-60.5 with 60-64% sensitivity and 61.3-62.7% specificity.

Conclusions: We demonstrated the relationship between parameters such as internal fat, trunk fat percentage and metabolic age calculated by TANITA and SXscore, which is the coronary complexity score. We recommend that patients with high values detected during TANITA measurements be followed more carefully in terms of primary preventive medicine.