Smoking, blood pressure and serum albumin are major determinants of carotid atherosclerosis in dialysis patients

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 256-260

  Malatino, Lorenzo S ^b,f   Benedetto, Frank A ^d   Mallamaci, Francesca ^a   Tripepi, Giovanni ^a   Zoccali, Carmine ^a   Parlongo, Saverio ^a   Cutrupi, Sebastiano ^a   Marino, Carmela ^a   Panuccio, Vincenzo ^a   Garozzo, Maurizio ^a   Candela, Vincenzo ^e   Bellanuova, Ignazio ^b   Cataliotti, Alessandro ^b   Rapisarda, Francesco ^c   Fatuzzo, Pasquale ^c   Bonanno, Grazia ^c   Seminara, Giuseppe ^c   Stancanelli, Benedetta ^c   Tassone, Filippo ^d   Labate, Carlo ^e  

^a BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Ist di Clinica Medica L Condorelli   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d Servizio di Cardiologia   (Italy)

^e Ospedale Morelli   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; End stage renal disease; Hypertension; Serum albumin; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN; LIPID; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UREMIA;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PHOSPHATES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SMOKING;

EID: 0032881269     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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