Association of plasma homocysteine with the number of major coronary arteries severely narrowed

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1027-1030

  Schnyder, Guido ^a,c   Pin, Riccardo ^a,b   Roffi, Marco ^a,b   Flammer, Yvonne ^a,b   Hess, Otto Martin ^a,b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035499977     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01983-X     Document Type: Article

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