Epicardial Adipose Tissue Predicts Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Independently of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference

BACKGROUND: Visceral obesity is strongly associated with atherosclerosis. Even though waist circumference (WC) is the most common assessment method of total visceral adipose tissue and cardiometabolic risk, this method lacks direct measurement of adipose tissue and has better correlation to subcutan...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta Cardiol Sin
Hauptverfasser: Erdoğan, Turan, Durakoğlugil, Murtaza Emre, Çetin, Mustafa, Altan Kocaman, Sinan, Duman, Hakan, Çiçek, Yüksel, Şatıroğlu, Ömer
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Taiwan Society of Cardiology 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6342838/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713398
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.6515/ACS.201901_35(1).20180628A
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