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Echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness measurement: A new screening test for subclinic atherosclerosis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases

OBJECTIVE: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) consist of a number of chronic inflammatory diseases. Inflammatory process is known to be involved in all stages of atherosclerosis. Early atherosclerosis is reflected by increased levels of carotid artery intima media thickness (c-IMT) and high-sensitivi...

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Autores principales: Ozdil, Kamil, Caliskan, Zuhal, Keles, Nursen, Ozturk, Oguzhan, Tekin, Ahmet Selami, Kahraman, Resul, Doganay, Levent, Demircioglu, Kenan, Yilmaz, Yusuf, Caliskan, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kare Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28752137
http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2017.74508