Apports de la médecine nucléaire en cardiologie préventive: l'exemple du syndrome métabolique [Value of nuclear medicine in preventive cardiology: the metabolic syndrome example]

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serval:BIB_B26F8072F282
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Title
Apports de la médecine nucléaire en cardiologie préventive: l'exemple du syndrome métabolique [Value of nuclear medicine in preventive cardiology: the metabolic syndrome example]
Journal
Revue Médicale Suisse
Author(s)
Prior J.O., Allenbach G., Masson J.C., Darioli R.
ISSN
1660-9379
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2008
Volume
4
Number
148
Pages
644-649
Language
french
Abstract
Metabolic syndrome represents a grouping of risk factors closely linked to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. At first, nuclear medicine has no direct application in cardiology at the level of primary prevention, but positron emission tomography is a non invasive imaging technique that can assess myocardial perfusion as well as the endothelium-dependent coronary vasomotion--a surrogate marker of cardiovascular event rate--thus finding an application in studying coronary physiopathology. As the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is still unknown in Switzerland, we will estimate it from data available in the frame of a health promotion program. Based on the deleterious effect on the endothelium already observed with two components, we will estimate the number of persons at risk in Switzerland.
Keywords
Coronary Circulation, Heart, Humans, Metabolic Syndrome X, Positron-Emission Tomography
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