Epicardial adipose tissue volume as a marker of coronary artery disease severity in patients with diabetes independent of coronary artery calcium: Findings from the CTRAD study

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-235

  Mohar, Dilbahar S ^a,b   Salcedo, Jonathan ^a,b   Hoang, Khiet C ^a,b   Kumar, Shivesh ^a,b   Saremi, Farhood ^a,b,c   Erande, Ashwini S ^a,b   Naderi, Nassim ^a,b   Nadeswaran, Pradeep ^a,b   Le, Christine ^a,b,c   Malik, Shaista ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Coronary artery disease; Diabetes; EAT; Multi detector computed tomography; NCT01564485; Pericardial fat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; METOPROLOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE VOLUME; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RISK FACTOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FOLLOW UP; METABOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BIOMARKERS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84920551969     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: 18728227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2014.08.021     Document Type: Article

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