Increased echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness is related to impaired diurnal blood pressure profiles

Blood Pressure

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 202-208

  Ertas, Faruk ^a   Kaya, Hasan ^a   Acet, Halit ^b   Çil, Habib ^a   Akyüz, Abdurrahman ^a   Islamoǧlu, Yahya ^a   Tekbaş, Ebru ^a   Aritürk, Zuhal ^a   Aydin, Mesut ^a   Soydinç, Serdar ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Diyarbakir Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dipper; echocardiography; epicardial fat thickness; hypertension; non dipper

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FATS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84860867653     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2011.649538     Document Type: Article

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