Yu, Mengmeng
Dai, Xu
Deng, Jianhong
Lu, Zhigang
Shen, Chengxing
Zhang, Jiayin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7383-7571
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81671678)
Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (20161428)
Shanghai Key Discipline of Medical Imaging (2017ZZ02005)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Revised: 22 July 2019
Accepted: 26 July 2019
First Online: 23 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Jiayin Zhang.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by hospital IRB.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: The current study has a major overlap of study cohorts (151 patients) with one previously accepted article published in European Radiology. However, the aims of these two studies were completely different. The current study is focusing on the perivascular fat attenuation index whereas the previous study was focusing on quantified subtended myocardial mass.
: • retrospective• comparative study• performed at one institution