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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Pubblicato in:Acta Cardiol Sin
Autori principali: Erdoğan, Turan, Durakoğlugil, Murtaza Emre, Çetin, Mustafa, Altan Kocaman, Sinan, Duman, Hakan, Çiçek, Yüksel, Şatıroğlu, Ömer
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Taiwan Society of Cardiology 2019
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Accesso online: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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