Relation of Pericardial Fat, Intrathoracic Fat, and Abdominal Visceral Fat With Incident Atrial Fibrillation (from the Framingham Heart Study)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1486-1492

  Lee, Jane J ^a   Yin, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Hoffmann, Udo ^c   Fox, Caroline S ^a,d   Benjamin, Emelia J ^a,b,e  

^a FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAPERITONEAL FAT; INTRATHORACIC FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PERICARDIAL FAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC CAVITY; TIME FACTOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC CAVITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84994158272     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.08.011     Document Type: Article

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