Association of ectopic fat with abdominal aorto-illiac and coronary artery calcification in african ancestry men

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There is strong evidence that fat accumulating in non-adipose sites, “ectopic fat”, is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), including vascular calcification. Most previous studies of this association have assessed only a single ectopic fat depot. Therefore, our aim was...

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Published in:Atherosclerosis
Main Authors: Kuipers, Allison L., Zmuda, Joseph M., Carr, J. Jeffrey, Terry, James G., Nair, Sangeeta, Cvejkus, Ryan, Bunker, Clareann H., Patrick, Alan L., Wassel, Christina L., Miljkovic, Iva
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557679/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28651187
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2017.06.030
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