Long term survivors of childhood brain cancer have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2116-2121

  Heikens, Janneke ^a,b   Ubbink, Mathilde C ^b   Van Der Pal, Heleen P J ^b   Bakker, Piet J M ^b   Fliers, Eric ^b   Smilde, Tineke J ^c   Kastelein, John J P ^b   Trip, Mieke D ^b  

^a Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Hypopituitarism; Intima media thickness; Late effects; Lipids; Long term survivors of childhood cancer; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; GROWTH HORMONE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOLIPOPROTEINS B; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0034193134     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000501)88:9<2116::AID-CNCR18>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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