Aortic atheroma morphology and the risk of ischemic stroke in a multiethnic population

American Heart Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 329-336

  Di Tullio, Marco R ^a   Sacco, Ralph L ^a   Savoia, Maria Teresa ^a   Sciacca, Robert R ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033952653     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(00)90243-6     Document Type: Article

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