Regional adipose tissue associations with calcified atherosclerotic plaque: African American-diabetes heart study

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2004-2009

  Divers, Jasmin ^a   Wagenknecht, Lynne E ^a   Bowden, Donald W ^a   Carr, J Jeffrey ^a   Hightower, R Caresse ^a   Ding, Jingzhong ^a   Xu, Jianzhao ^a   Langefeld, Carl D ^a   Freedman, Barry I ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AORTA; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 77957136389     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.30     Document Type: Article

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