Pericardial fat is associated with all-cause mortality but not incident CVD: The Rancho Bernardo Study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 470-475

  Larsen, Britta A ^a   Laughlin, Gail A ^a   Saad, Sarah D ^a   Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^a   Allison, Matthew A ^a   Wassel, Christina L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Body composition; Fat distribution; Incident CVD; Intra thoracic fat; Pericardial fat

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENTING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRA THORACIC FAT; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL FAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923050842     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.02.022     Document Type: Article

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