Body mass index as a predictor of the presence but not the severity of coronary artery disease evaluated by cardiac computed tomography

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1387-1393

  Dores, Hélder ^a   De Araújo Gonçalves, Pedro ^a,b,c   Carvalho, Maria Salomó ^a   Sousa, Pedro Jerónimo ^a   Ferreira, António ^b   Cardim, Nuno ^b   Carmo, Miguel Mota ^c   Aleixo, Ana ^a,c   Mendes, Miguel ^a   Machado, Francisco Pereira ^b   Roquette, José ^b   Marques, Hugo ^b  

^a Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DA LUZ   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

body mass index; Cardiac computed tomography; coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY STENOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORTUGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PORTUGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908890901     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487313494291     Document Type: Article

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