Coronary artery calcium detected by digital fluoroscopy and risk factors in healthy subjects

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 474-476

  Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Toulgaridis, Theodoros ^a   Sitafidis, George ^a   Christodoulou, John ^a   Foussas, Stefanos ^a   Hahalis, George ^a   Vagenakis, Apostolos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030586889     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00340-2     Document Type: Article

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