Left, right, near or far wall common carotid intima-media thickness measurements: Associations with cardiovascular disease and lower extremity arterial atherosclerosis

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 801-807

  Bots, Michiel L ^a,b   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Methodology; Noninvasive; Ultrasonography; Wall thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEG; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0030767350     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00059-0     Document Type: Article

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