Increased epicardial fat thickness is associated with cardiac functional changes in healthy women

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-124

  Kilicaslan, Baris ^a   Ozdogan, Oner ^a   Aydin, Mehmet ^a   Dursun, Huseyin ^a   Susam, Ibrahim ^a   Ertas, Faruk ^b  

^a Tepecik Research and Training Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epicardial fat tissue; Left atrial volume index; Left ventricular mass index; Metabolic syndrome; Myocardial Tei index

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX; LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS INDEX; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MYOCARDIAL TEI INDEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867847923     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.228.119     Document Type: Article

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