Triglycerides-Glucose İndex and Coronary Slow Flow: A New Diagnostic Tool?

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary cause of death and disability worldwide, accounting for the majority of deaths from noncommunicable diseases. Important risk factors such as smoking, diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, or dyslipidemia draw more attention from physicians. However, individuals can develop subclinical atherosclerosis even if they do not have traditional cardiovascular risk factors or symptoms since it is a slowly progressive disease, with arteries affected by thickening, stiffness, loss of elasticity, and increased wall fragility to stenosis and lumen occlusion.

Insulin resistance (IR) may be one of the potential mechanisms of the development of CVD, being recognized as an indicator of systemic inflammation and metabolic disorders closely related to atherosclerotic CVD. Moreover, it is considered a high-risk factor for DM and CVD.

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