Relationship between epicardial fat measured by echocardiography and coronary atherosclerosis: A single-blind historical cohort study

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 505-511

  Nabati, Maryam ^a   Saffar, Naser ^a   Yazdani, Jamshid ^a   Parsaee, Mohammd Sadegh ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

coronary atherosclerosis; echocardiography; epicardial fat thickness

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPICARDIAL FAT; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84876100612     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12083     Document Type: Article

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