Carotid plaque and intima-media thickness assessed by B-mode ultrasonography in subjects ranging from young adults to centenarians

Stroke

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 830-834

  Homma, Satoki ^a,d   Hirose, Nobuyoshi ^b   Ishida, Hiroyuki ^b   Ishii, Toshiharu ^c   Araki, Goro ^a  

^a Kugayama Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Plaque; Thickness, intima media; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS;

EID: 0035074065     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.4.830     Document Type: Article

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