Abdominal fat sonographic measurement compared to anthropometric indices for predicting the presence of coronary artery disease

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1957-1965

  Shabestari, Abbas Arjmand ^a   Bahrami Motlagh, Hooman ^b   Hosseinpanah, Farhad ^c   Heidari, Kazem ^d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Obesity; Sonography; Visceral fat; Words computed tomographic angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOMETRY; DISEASES; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; NUTRITION; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENT; CARDIO-VASCULAR RISK FACTORS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; OBESITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHIC; VISCERAL FAT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; OBESITY; SONOGRAPHY; VISCERAL FAT;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887256110     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.32.11.1957     Document Type: Article

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