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Carotid extra-media thickness in obesity and metabolic syndrome: a novel index of perivascular adipose tissue: extra-media thickness in obesity and metabolic syndrome.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Mar 2015
Haberka Maciej, Gąsior Zbigniew
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OBJECTIVES: We aimed to evaluate the association between a novel ultrasound index extra-media thickness (EMT), obesity, and metabolic syndrome (MS) using several measures of adiposity. METHODS: Four hundred patients were included in the study (age: 60.95 ± 7.3 years, F/M: 35/65%). Both common car...
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