Relationships between total and regional adiposity and epicardial fat in obese women: How can dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry be associated with echocardiographic epicardial fat measurements?

Clinical Obesity

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 132-140

  Bazzocchi, A ^a,b   Diano, D ^a   Vicennati, V ^c   Pizzi, C ^a   De Filippo, M ^d   Pasquali, R ^c   Rossi, C ^d   Battista, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorptiometry; Adipose tissue; Body fat distribution; Obesity; Photon

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EPICARDIAL FAT; FAT BODY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84978236958     PISSN: 17588103     EISSN: 17588111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cob.12027     Document Type: Article

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