Pericardial fat volume and incident atrial fibrillation in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Jackson Heart Study

OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that greater pericardial fat volume would be associated with increased risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS: In the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Jackson Heart Study (JHS), pericardial fat volume was quantified by computed tomography. Incid...

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Autores principales: Heckbert, Susan R., Wiggins, Kerri L., Blackshear, Chad, Yang, Yi, Ding, Jingzhong, Liu, Jiankang, McKnight, Barbara, Alonso, Alvaro, Austin, Thomas R., Benjamin, Emelia J., Curtis, Lesley H., Sotoodehnia, Nona, Correa, Adolfo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28452401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21835

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28452401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21835

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