World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PBDAY) Study. Histomorphometric investigation of the aorta and coronary arteries in young people from different geographical locations

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 266-276

  Lesauskaite, V ^a   Tanganelli, P ^b   Bianciardi, G ^b   Simoes, C ^b   Toti, P ^b   Weber, G ^b  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Histomorphometry; Human juvenile atherosclerosis; Intimal thickness; Medial thickness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0033287731     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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