Association of educational achievement with pulsatile arterial diameter change of the common carotid artery: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 1987-1992

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 617-627

  Din Dzietham, Rebecca ^a   Liao, Duanping ^b   Diez Roux, Ana ^c   Nieto, F Javier ^d   Paton, Catherine ^a   Howard, George ^e   Brown, Andrew ^f   Carnethon, Mercedes ^a   Tyroler, Herman A ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid artery, common; Education; Elasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLLEGE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; EDUCATION; ELASTICITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE PRESSURE; RIGIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034307509     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.7.617     Document Type: Article

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