Threshold values of high-risk echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 887-892

  Iacobellis, Gianluca ^a   Willens, Howard J ^b   Barbaro, Giuseppe ^c   Sharma, Arya M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERICARDIUM; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERICARDIUM; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41549158784     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.6     Document Type: Article

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