Increased epicardial adipose tissue is associated with coronary artery disease and major adverse cardiovascular events

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-489

  Hajsadeghi, Fereshteh ^a   Nabavi, Vahid ^a   Bhandari, Ajay ^a   Choi, Andrew ^a   Vincent, Hunter ^a   Flores, Ferdinand ^a   Budoff, Matthew ^a   Ahmadi, Naser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography (CTA); Coronary artery disease (CAD); Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT); Major adverse cardiac event (MACE)

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIUM; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84908520865     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.09.037     Document Type: Article

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