Association of pericardial fat accumulation rather than abdominal obesity with coronary atherosclerotic plaque formation in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 573-578

  Konishi, Masaaki ^a   Sugiyama, Seigo ^a   Sugamura, Koichi ^a   Nozaki, Toshimitsu ^a   Ohba, Keisuke ^a   Matsubara, Junichi ^a   Matsuzawa, Yasushi ^a   Sumida, Hitoshi ^a   Nagayoshi, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Jinnouchi, Hideaki ^b   Matsui, Kunihiko ^c   Kimura, Kazuo ^d   Umemura, Satoshi ^e   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Jinnouchi Hospital   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fat; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Plaque

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77950020397     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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