Prognostic value of coronary artery calcium and epicardial adipose tissue assessed by non-contrast cardiac computed tomography

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 447-453

  Kunita, Eiji ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^a   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^a   Ohashi, Norihiko ^a   Oka, Toshiharu ^a   Utsunomiya, Hiroto ^a   Urabe, Yoji ^a   Tsushima, Hiroshi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Budoff, Matthew J ^b   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac events; Coronary artery calcium; Epicardial adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CALCIUM; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TRIGLYCERIDES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84896269171     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.01.038     Document Type: Article

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