May 23, 2012Radiology

Brown Fat at PET/CT: Correlation with Patient Characteristics

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Population

6,867 patients with cancer who underwent positron emission tomography/computed tomography examinations, from…

Design

Case-control

Authors

CCCarmel G. CroninMater Misericordiae University Hospital PPPriyanka PrakashUniversiti Sains Malaysia GDGilbert H. DanielsBoston University

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Implication

Brown fat on PET/CT is associated with female sex and lower BMI; hypothesis-generating for cardiometabolic relevance without practice change.

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Population

6,867 patients with cancer who underwent positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) examinations, from which 298 cases with documented FDG uptake in brown fat and 298 matched controls were selected.

Comparator

Control patients without brown fat, matched for age, sex, and month and year of examination.

Outcome

Prevalence of brown fat and correlation of demographic characteristics with the mean and maximum standardized uptake values of brown fat.surrogate

In patients undergoing PET/CT, brown fat is more commonly observed in younger, female, and thinner individuals.

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Cronin et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6fdeba26770c2b8de034bc https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.12100683

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Implication

Brown fat on PET/CT is associated with female sex and lower BMI; hypothesis-generating for cardiometabolic relevance without practice change.

Brown Fat at PET/CT: Correlation with Patient Characteristics

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Brown Fat at PET/CT: Correlation with Patient Characteristics

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