Excessive interatrial adiposity is associated with left atrial remodeling, augmented contractile performance in asymptomatic population

Echo Research and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-15

  Lai, Yau Huei ^a,b,c   Yun, Chun Ho ^a,d   Su, Cheng Huang ^a,b,c   Yang, Fei Shih ^a   Yeh, Hung I ^a,b,c   Hou, Charles Jia Yin ^a,b,c   Wu, Tung Hsin ^d   Cury, Ricardo C ^f   Bezerra, Hiram G ^g   Hung, Chung Lieh ^a,b,c,e  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NURSING AND MANAGEMENT COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^c MACKAY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f Baptist Cardiac Vascular Institute   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Interatrial fat; Left atrial function; MDCT; Pericardial fat

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERATRIAL FAT; INTERATRIAL SEPTUM; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIAORTIC FAT; PERICARDIAL FAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 85023756047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERP-15-0031     Document Type: Article

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