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Arterial stiffness, fatty liver and the presence of coronary artery calcium in a large population cohort

BACKGROUND: We tested whether fatty liver, brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) and conventional cardiovascular risk factors were associated with a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score > 0 (as a marker of the presence of early atherosclerosis) in a cohort of healthy Korean adults. METHOD: Th...

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Autores principales: Sung, Ki-Chul, Lim, Young-Hyo, Park, Sungha, Kang, Seok-Min, Park, Jeong Bae, Kim, Byung-Jin, Shin, Jin-Ho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24191863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-12-162