Behaviour of the carotid wall in menopausal women with and without arterial hypertension

Maturitas

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-43

  Signorelli, Salvatore Santo ^a   Sciacchitano, Salvatore ^b   Costa, Maria Pia ^a   Di Pino, Luigi ^a   Pennnisi, Giuseppe ^a   Caschetto, Sarina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Intima media thickness; Menopause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0034724718     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(00)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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