Carotid intima-media thickness measurements: What defines an abnormality? A systematic review

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 149-157

  Aminbakhsh, Amin ^a   Mancini, G B John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0032752139     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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