title: Reply to the Letter to the Editor: "The relationship between epicardial fat thickness and arterial stiffness; role of antihypertensive drugs and statins".
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: bjjake.kim@samsung.com.
authors.forename: Byung Jin
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011673:Pulsatile Flow / Q000502:physiology*; D014463:Ultrasonography; D059289:Vascular Stiffness
keywords: Arterial stiffness; Echocardiography; Epicardial adipose tissue; Epicardial fat; Pulse wave velocity