B-mode ultrasound assessment of pravastatin treatment effect on carotid and femoral artery walls and its correlations with coronary arteriographic findings: A report of the regression growth evaluation statin study (REGRESS)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1561-1567

  De Groot, Eric ^a,b   Jukema, J Wouter ^c   Montauban Van Swijndregt, Alexander D ^d   Zwinderman, Aeilko H ^c   Ackerstaff, Rob G A ^d   Van Der Steen, Anton F W ^a,e   Bom, Nicolaas ^a,e   Lie, Kong I ^b   Bruschke, Albert V G ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PRAVASTATIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MONITORING; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PRAVASTATIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0031777596     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00170-3     Document Type: Article

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