Pericardial fat and atrial conduction abnormalities in the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-184

  Babcock, Michael J ^a   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a   Ding, Jingzhong ^a   A Kronmal, Richard ^b   Goff Jr Jr , David C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; P WAVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PR INTERVAL; RADIOGRAPHY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 78650678693     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.121     Document Type: Article

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