Accumulation of pericardial fat correlates with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with normal ejection fraction

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-351

  Konishi, Masaaki ^a,b   Sugiyama, Seigo ^a   Sugamura, Koichi ^a   Nozaki, Toshimitsu ^a   Matsubara, Junichi ^a   Akiyama, Eiichi ^a   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Matsuzawa, Yasushi ^b   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazuo ^b   Umemura, Satoshi ^c   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diastole; Heart failure; Obesity; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

FAT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; PERICARDIAL FAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MITRAL VALVE; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84860461319     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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