Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Benign Consequence of Obesity?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ngo, Doan T ^a   Gokce, Noyan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; Editorials; obesity adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIUM; HUMAN; LIPOLYSIS; MACROPHAGE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84927171525     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.003156     Document Type: Editorial

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