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Epicardial Fat from Echocardiography: A New Method for Visceral Adipose Tissue Prediction

DOI

766

Citations

33

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2003

Year

Gianluca Iacobellis, Filippo Assael, Mária Cristina Ribaudo, Alessandra Zappaterreno, G Alessi, Umberto Di Mario, Frida Leonetti
Obesity Research

Abstract

Epicardial adipose tissue showed a strong correlation with anthropometric and imaging measurements of VAT. Hence, transthoracic echocardiography could be an easy and reliable imaging method for VAT prediction.

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