Pericardial Fat and Cardiovascular Disease
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1 Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505, USA 2 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,USA 3 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center. 4 Department of Cardiology and Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem
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