Peri-coronary epicardial adipose tissue is related to cardiovascular risk factors and coronary artery calcification in post-menopausal women

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 777-783

  De Vos, Alexander M ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^a   Roos, Cornelis J ^a   Meijs, Matthijs F L ^a   Van Der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a   Rutten, Annemarieke ^a   Gorter, Petra M ^a   Cramer, Maarten Jan ^a   Doevendans, Pieter A ^a   Rensing, Benno J ^b   Bartelink, Marie Louise ^a   Velthuis, Birgitta K ^a   Mosterd, Arend ^a,c   Bots, Michiel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT and MRI; Epidemiology; Imaging; Lipid; Lipoprotein metabolism; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; GLUCOSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LIPIDS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41149170637     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm564     Document Type: Article

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