Relation between Epicardial Fat and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Asymptomatic Individuals

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 378-382

  Abazid, Rami M ^a   Smettei, Osama A ^a   Kattea, Mohammad Obadah ^a   Sayed, Sawsan ^a   Saqqah, Hanaa ^a   Widyan, Adel M ^b   Opolski, Maksymilian P ^c  

^a PRINCE SULTAN CARDIAC CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; coronary artery calcification; epicardial adipose tissue; multidetector computed tomography; visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENSITY; EPICARDIAL FAT; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85032271087     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: 15360237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0000000000000296     Document Type: Article

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