Association between intima-media thickness and wall shear stress in common carotid arteries in healthy male subjects

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3257-3262

  Gnasso, Agostino ^a,b   Carallo, Claudio ^a   Irace, Concetta ^a   Spagnuolo, Vitaliano ^a   De Novara, Giuseppina ^a   Mattioli, Pier Luigi ^a   Pujia, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Policlinico Mater Domini   (Italy)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid arteries; hemodynamics; shear stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BODY MASS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTIMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THICKNESS; VISCOMETER;

EID: 0030466764     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.12.3257     Document Type: Article

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