Pericardial Fat and CVD: Is All Fat Created Equally?

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¹ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

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Carl J Lavie et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 Sep.

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. 2017 Sep;10(9):1028-1030.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.11.018. Epub 2017 Mar 15.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

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Keywords: adiposity; cardiac MRI; metabolic syndrome; obesity.

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