Assessment by transesophageal echography of atherosclerosis of the descending thoracic aorta in patients with hypercholesterolemia

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 703-709

  Tomochika, Yasuaki ^a   Tanaka, Nobuaki ^a   Ono, Shiro ^a   Murata, Kazuya ^a   Muro, Aiko ^a   Yamamura, Taisei ^a   Tone, Takashi ^a   Iwatate, Mitsuo ^a   Ueda, Kayo ^a   Morikuni, Kazumi ^a   Matsuzaki, Masunori ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCENDING AORTA; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; DIASTOLE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0033104188     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00974-6     Document Type: Article

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