Central and peripheral fat and subclinical vascular damage in older women

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-365

  Fantin, Francesco ^a   Rossi, Andrea P ^a   Cazzadori, Marco ^a   Comellato, Gabriele ^a   Mazzali, Gloria ^a   Gozzoli, Maria Paola ^a   Grison, Elisa ^a   Zamboni, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Fat distribution; Older people; Pulse wave velocity; Subclinical vascular damage

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL FAT MASS; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL FAT MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84877083710     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft005     Document Type: Article

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