Epicardial adipose tissue is increased in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 389-393

  Lipson, Aliza ^a   Alexopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Hartlage, Gregory Randell ^a   Arepalli, Chesnal ^a   Oeser, Annette ^b   Bian, Aihua ^b   Gebretsadik, Tebeb ^b   Shintani, Ayumi ^b   Stillman, Arthur E ^a   Stein, C Michael ^b   Raggi, Paolo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary calcium score; Corticosteroids; Epicardial adipose tissue; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EPICARDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TENNESSEE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864758273     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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