The Relationships Between Regional Arterial Inflammation, Calcification, Risk Factors and Biomarkers – A Prospective FDG PET/CT Imaging Study

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Summary

FDG PET imaging can increase knowledge of how atherosclerotic plaque inflammation relates to calcification, serum biomarkers, and vascular risk factors, and the atheroprotective biomarker adiponectin was negatively correlated with the degree of arterial inflammation in the descending aorta.

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Published
2009-01-26
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Medicine, Inflammation, Cardiology, Internal medicine, Biomarker

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