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The association of epicardial adipose tissue and the metabolic syndrome in community participants in South Africa

Author(s) -

DatshanaP Naidoo,

Rosaley Prakaschandra

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of cardiovascular echography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2347-193X

pISSN - 2211-4122

DOI - 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_71_17

Subject(s) - medicine , waist , metabolic syndrome , adipose tissue , body mass index , logistic regression , confidence interval , epicardial adipose tissue , obesity , cohort , receiver operating characteristic , cardiology , demography , sociology

We sought to determine the association of echocardiographically derived epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness, which is a component of visceral adipose tissue, with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a cohort of randomly selected community participants.

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