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Differential association of visceral adipose tissue with coronary plaque characteristics in patients with and without diabetes mellitus

BACKGROUND: Excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is closely associated with the presence of coronary artery plaques that are vulnerable to rupture. Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have more VAT than patients without DM, but the extent to which VAT contributes to the characteristics of coronary...

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Autores principales: Osawa, Kazuhiro, Miyoshi, Toru, Koyama, Yasushi, Sato, Shuhei, Akagi, Noriaki, Morimitsu, Yusuke, Kubo, Motoki, Sugiyama, Hiroki, Nakamura, Kazufumi, Morita, Hiroshi, Kanazawa, Susumu, Ito, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24624968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-13-61