Pericardial Fat and Echocardiographic Measures of Cardiac Abnormalities: The Jackson Heart Study

OBJECTIVE: Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT), a regional fat depot adjacent to the myocardium, may mediate the complex relation between obesity and cardiac left ventricular (LV) abnormalities. We sought to evaluate the association of PAT with echocardiographic measures of LV abnormalities in the Jack...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jiankang, Fox, Caroline S., Hickson, DeMarc A., May, Warren L., Ding, Jingzhong, Carr, J. Jeffery, Taylor, Herman A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Diabetes Association 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228247
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc10-1312

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228247
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc10-1312

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