Echocardiographic Epicardial fat thickness is associated with coronary artery calcification: Results from the CAESAR study

Circulation Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 818-824

  Kim, Byung Jin ^a   Kim, Bum Soo ^a   Kang, Jin Ho ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary artery calcification; Echocardiography; Epicardial fat

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERICARDIUM; REGISTER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; REGISTRIES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84925624807     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-14-1154     Document Type: Article

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