Relationship between epicardial fat measured by 64-multidetector computed tomography and coronary artery disease

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 166-171

  Iwasaki, Kohichiro ^a   Matsumoto, Takeshi ^a   Aono, Hitoshi ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Samukawa, Masanobu ^a  

^a Okayama Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPICARDIAL FAT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952734255     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20840     Document Type: Article

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