Pericardial Fat and CVD: Is All Fat Created Equally?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1028-1030

  Lavie, Carl J ^a   Oktay, Ahmet Afşin ^a   Pandey, Ambarish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adiposity; cardiac MRI; metabolic syndrome; obesity

Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PERICARDIAL FAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; PERICARDIUM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85015307167     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.11.018     Document Type: Editorial

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