Gender disparities in the association between epicardial adipose tissue volume and coronary atherosclerosis: A 3-dimensional cardiac computed tomography imaging study in Japanese subjects

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dagvasumberel, Munkhbaatar ^a   Shimabukuro, Michio ^a   Nishiuchi, Takeshi ^b   Ueno, Junji ^a   Takao, Shoichiro ^a   Fukuda, Daiju ^a   Hirata, Yoichiro ^a   Kurobe, Hirotsugu ^a   Soeki, Takeshi ^a   Iwase, Takashi ^a   Kusunose, Kenya ^a   Niki, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Koji ^a   Taketani, Yoshio ^a   Yagi, Shusuke ^a   Tomita, Noriko ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Harada, Masafumi ^a   Kitagawa, Tetsuya ^a   Sata, Masataka ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Kawashima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Epicardial adipose tissue; Gender difference; Obesity

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY SURFACE AREA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84868624673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-11-106     Document Type: Article

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