Epicardial fat: A novel marker of subclinical atherosclerosis in clinical practice?

Anatolian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 64-65

  Katsiki, Niki ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIAL FAT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; PERICARDIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 85010702915     PISSN: 21492263     EISSN: 21492271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2016.22129     Document Type: Editorial

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