Visceral adipose tissue is a better predictor of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis compared with waist circumference

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1083-1088

  Rallidis, Loukianos S ^a   Baroutsi, Kyriaki ^b   Zolindaki, Maria ^b   Karagianni, Maria ^b   Varounis, Christos ^a   Dagres, Nikolaos ^a   Lekakis, John ^a   Anastasiou Nana, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intima media thickness; Ultrasonography; Visceral adipose tissue; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIO-VASCULAR RISK FACTORS; HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROLS; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

DISEASES;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UPREGULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84899918099     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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