Do conventional risk factors predict subclinical coronary artery disease? Results from the Prospective Army Coronary Calcium Project

American Heart Journal

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 463-468

  Taylor, Allen J ^a,b   Feuerstein, Irwin ^a,b   Wong, Henry ^a,b   Barko, William ^a,b   Brazaitis, Michael ^a,b   O'Malley, Patrick G ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RISK; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0035096914     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2001.113069     Document Type: Article

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