Epicardial fat thickness in stable coronary artery disease: Its relationship with high-sensitive cardiac troponin T and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 685-690

  Börekçi, Abdurrezzak ^a   Gür, Mustafa ^a   Özaltun, Betül ^b   Baykan, Ahmet Oytun ^b   Harbalioʇlu, Hazar ^b   Şeker, Taner ^b   Şen, Ömer ^b   Acele, Armaʇan ^b   Gözükara, Mehmet Yavuz ^c   Kuloʇlu, Osman ^b   Koç, Mevlüt ^b   Çayli, Murat ^b  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Adana Training and Research Center   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain natriuretic peptide; C reactive protein; Coronary; Epicardial fat thickness; SYNTAX; Troponin

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FAT; TROPONIN T; URIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76); TNNT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNTAX SCORE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BIOMARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TROPONIN T; TURKEY;

EID: 84927691657     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0000000000000140     Document Type: Article

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