The relationship between epicardial fat volume and incident coronary artery calcium

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 310-316

  Otaki, Yuka ^a   Rajani, Ronak ^a   Cheng, Victor Y ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Nakanishi, Rine ^a   Shmilovich, Haim ^a   Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Hayes, Sean W ^a   Thomson, Louise E J ^a   Friedman, John D ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Wong, Nathan D ^b   Rozanski, Alan ^c   Shaw, Leslee ^d   Budoff, Matthew ^e   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Dey, Damini ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery calcium; Epicardial fat volume; Low risk; Progression

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM FAT VOLUME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 80052929049     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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