4-year follow-up of cardiovascular events and changes in visceral fat accumulation after health promotion program in the Amagasaki Visceral Fat Study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 698-700

  Okauchi, Yukiyoshi ^a   Kishida, Ken ^a   Funahashi, Tohru ^a   Noguchi, Midori ^b   Morita, Sachiko ^b   Ogawa, Tomoko ^b   Imagawa, Akihisa ^a   Nakamura, Tadashi ^c   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^d   Shimomura, Iichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Personal Department Payroll Section   (Japan)

^c Kawasaki Hospital   (Japan)

^d SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular events; Health promotion program; Visceral fat accumulation; Visceral fat reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPEDANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPANESE; LETTER; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SMOKING; SUDDEN DEATH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957702895     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.06.011     Document Type: Letter

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