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V-FAT study – A correlation between novel markers of obesity and coronary artery disease severity assessed by Syntax score in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome

Our aim was to evaluate the role of traditional versus newer markers of obesity, in risk assessment of CAD. 50 consecutive ACS patients and 20 controls were enrolled.Visceral and Subcutaneous fat (VFAT and SFAT) analysis was done using multi-slice abdominal MRI. Syntax score was calculated from coro...

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Autores principales: Bahekar, Anurag, George, Varghese, Jacob, Kiran, Salih, Sultan R., Joseph, Ancy Thannikkal, Koshy, Cherian, Gautam, Amol, Benjamin, Geena, Venugopal, Krishnan Nair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33189211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2020.07.007