Impact of Body Mass Index on the relationship of epicardial adipose tissue to metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease in an Asian population

BACKGROUND: In a previous study, we demonstrated that the thickness of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), measured by echocardiography, was increased in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) and coronary artery disease (CAD). Several studies on obese patients, however, failed to demonstrate any relati...

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Autores principales: Park, Jin-Sun, Ahn, Sung-Gyun, Hwang, Jung-Won, Lim, Hong-Seok, Choi, Byoung-Joo, Choi, So-Yeon, Yoon, Myeong-Ho, Hwang, Gyo-Seung, Tahk, Seung-Jea, Shin, Joon-Han
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Original Investigation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20604967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-9-29

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20604967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-9-29

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