General and abdominal obesity and abdominal visceral fat accumulation associated with coronary artery calcification in Korean men

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 273-278

  Choi, Su Yeon ^a   Kim, Donghee ^a   Oh, Byung Hee ^b   Kim, Minkyung ^a   Park, Hyo Eun ^a   Lee, Chang Hyun ^a   Cho, Sang Heon ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat; Coronary artery calcification; Korean men; Obesity; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; KOREA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958482534     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.07.052     Document Type: Article

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