Epicardial fat volume is correlated with coronary lesion and its severity

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 4328-4334

  Bo, Xiaohong ^a,b   Ma, Likun ^a   Fan, Jili ^b   Jiang, Zhe ^b   Zhou, Yuansong ^b   Zhang, Lei ^b   Li, Wanjun ^b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Cardiology Taihe County People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Computer assisted tomography; Coronary arteriography; Coronary artery lesion; Volume of epicardial adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

EPICARDIAL FAT; FAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENSINI SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84929379044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19405901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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