Association of epicardial adipose tissue with progression of coronary artery calcification is more pronounced in the early phase of atherosclerosis: Results from the Heinz Nixdorf recall study

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 909-916

  Mahabadi, Amir A ^a   Lehmann, Nils ^a   Kälsch, Hagen ^a   Robens, Tim ^a   Bauer, Marcus ^a   Dykun, Iryna ^a   Budde, Thomas ^b   Moebus, Susanne ^a   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Bethanien   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac computed tomography; Coronary artery calcification; Epicardial adipose tissue; Epidemiology; Heinz Nixdorf Recall study

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DISEASE COURSE; GERMANY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84922591830     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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