Prevalence of lower extremity arterial disease defined by the ankle-branchial index among American Indians: The inter-tribal heart project

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Lamar Welch, Verna L ^a   Casper, Michele ^a   Greenlund, Kurt ^a   Zheng, Zhi Jie ^a   Giles, Wayne ^a   Rith Najarian, Stephen ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Lower extremity arterial disease; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANKLE; ARM; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEG ARTERY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036243494     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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