Lack of Association between Epicardial Fat Volume and Extent of Coronary Artery Calcification, Severity of Coronary Artery Disease, or Presence of Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities in a Diverse, Symptomatic Patient Population: Results from the CORE320 Multicenter Study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Tanami, Yutaka ^a   Jinzaki, Masahiro ^a   Kishi, Satoru ^b   Matheson, Matthew ^c   Vavere, Andrea L ^b   Rochitte, Carlos E ^d   Dewey, Marc ^e   Chen, Marcus Y ^f   Clouse, Melvin E ^g   Cox, Christopher ^c   Kuribayashi, Sachio ^a   Lima, Joao A C ^b   Arbab Zadeh, Armin ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; coronary stenosis; myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICARDIUM; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ASIA; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BRAZIL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NORTH AMERICA; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; BRAZIL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NORTH AMERICA; ODDS RATIO; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84930929714     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.114.002676     Document Type: Article

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