Separating the VAT from the FAT: New insights into the cardiometabolic risks of obesity

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1236-1238

  De Lemos, James A ^a   Neeland, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiometabolic risk; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SELECTION BIAS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSITY; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY;

EID: 84927915344     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.08.007     Document Type: Editorial

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