The role of obesity in carotid plaque instability: interaction with age, gender, and cardiovascular risk factors

BACKGROUND: In the last decade, several studies have reported an unexpected and seemingly paradoxical inverse correlation between BMI and incidence of cardiovascular diseases. This so called “obesity paradox effect” has been mainly investigated through imaging methods instead of histologic evaluatio...

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Autores principales: Rovella, Valentina, Anemona, Lucia, Cardellini, Marina, Scimeca, Manuel, Saggini, Andrea, Santeusanio, Giuseppe, Bonanno, Elena, Montanaro, Manuela, Legramante, Iacopo Maria, Ippoliti, Arnaldo, Di Daniele, Nicola, Federici, Massimo, Mauriello, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Original Investigation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5874994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29598820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12933-018-0685-0

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