Association Between Visceral Adipose Tissue Area and Coronary Plaque Morphology Assessed by CT Angiography

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 908-917

  Ohashi, Norihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^a   Horiguchi, Jun ^b   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^a   Kunita, Eiji ^a   Utsunomiya, Hiroto ^a   Oka, Toshiharu ^a   Kohno, Nobuoki ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

64 slice computed tomography angiography; noncalcified coronary plaque; plaque vulnerability; visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953778485     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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