Development and reproducibility of a computed tomography-based measurement of renal sinus fat

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Renal sinus fat may mediate obesity-related vascular disease, although this fat depot has not been assessed in a community-based sample. We sought to develop a protocol to quantify renal sinus fat accumulation using multi-detector co...

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Main Authors: Porter Stacy A, Hwang Shih-Jen, Foster Meredith C, Massaro Joseph M, Hoffmann Udo, Fox Caroline S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-10-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/12/52