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Pericardial Adipose Tissue, Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: The Jackson Heart Study

OBJECTIVE: Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT), a regional fat depot that surrounds the heart, is associated with an unfavorable cardiometabolic risk factor profile. The associations among PAT, cardiometabolic risk factors, and coronary artery calcification (CAC) and abdominal aortic artery calcificati...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jiankang, Fox, Caroline S., Hickson, DeMarc, Sarpong, Daniel, Ekunwe, Lynette, May, Warren D., Hundley, Gregory W., Carr, J. Jeffery, Taylor, Herman A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Diabetes Association 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20413524
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc10-0245