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Differential impacts of cardiac and abdominal ectopic fat deposits on cardiometabolic risk stratification

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that excessive abdominal visceral adipose tissue (AVAT) and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) are risk factors of cardiometabolic disease; we hypothesized there is differential contribution of abdominal and cardiac fat deposits to the cardiometabolic profiles. M...

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Autores principales: Wu, Fu-Zong, Wu, Carol C., Kuo, Pei-Lun, Wu, Ming-Ting
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26800881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-016-0195-5