Epicardial adipose tissue extent: Relationship with age, body fat distribution, and coronaropathy

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2424-2430

  Silaghi, Alina ^a,b   Piercecchi Marti, Marie Dominique ^c   Grino, Michel ^a,b   Leonetti, Georges ^c   Alessi, Marie C ^a,b   Clement, Karine ^a   Dadoun, Frederic ^a,b,c   Dutour, Anne ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55249109492     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.379     Document Type: Article

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