Influence of Obesity and Metabolic Disease on Carotid Atherosclerosis in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CordioPrev Study).

Recent data suggest that the presence of associated metabolic abnormalities may be important modifiers of the association of obesity with a poorer prognosis in coronary heart disease. We determined the influence of isolated overweight and obesity on carotid intima media thickness (IMT-CC), and also...

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Main Authors: Eva Talavera-Garcia, Javier Delgado-Lista, Antonio Garcia-Rios, Nieves Delgado-Casado, Purificacion Gomez-Luna, Angela Gomez-Garduño, Francisco Gomez-Delgado, Juan F Alcala-Diaz, Elena Yubero-Serrano, Carmen Marin, Ana I Perez-Caballero, Francisco J Fuentes-Jimenez, Antonio Camargo, Fernando Rodriguez-Cantalejo, Francisco J Tinahones, Jose M Ordovas, Francisco Perez-Jimenez, Pablo Perez-Martinez, Jose Lopez-Miranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4827867?pdf=render