Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness in Young Indian Overweight and Obese Individuals

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) has been found to be an important reliable marker for future coronary events. Deposition of the EAT in young individuals is not well known. We studied EAT in 25 young overweight or obese individuals. In spite of the high visceral fat and total body fat, EAT thickness...

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Autores principales: Shah, AA, Chakravarthy, KB, Maiya, AG, Vora, V, Gopee, M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25031910
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.131720
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description Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) has been found to be an important reliable marker for future coronary events. Deposition of the EAT in young individuals is not well known. We studied EAT in 25 young overweight or obese individuals. In spite of the high visceral fat and total body fat, EAT thickness was not found to be high in the participants of our study.
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spelling pubmed-40837302014-07-16 Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness in Young Indian Overweight and Obese Individuals Shah, AA Chakravarthy, KB Maiya, AG Vora, V Gopee, M Ann Med Health Sci Res Short Communication Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) has been found to be an important reliable marker for future coronary events. Deposition of the EAT in young individuals is not well known. We studied EAT in 25 young overweight or obese individuals. In spite of the high visceral fat and total body fat, EAT thickness was not found to be high in the participants of our study. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4083730/ /pubmed/25031910 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.131720 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness in Young Indian Overweight and Obese Individuals
title_short Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness in Young Indian Overweight and Obese Individuals
title_sort epicardial adipose tissue thickness in young indian overweight and obese individuals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25031910
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.131720
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