Intra-abdominal fat and metabolic syndrome are associated with larger infrarenal aortic diameters in patients with clinically evident arterial disease

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-120

  Gorter, Petra M ^a   Visseren, Frank L J ^a   Moll, Frans L ^a   van der Graaf, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARENAL AORTA DIAMETER; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 45549087370     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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