Assessment of clinically silent atherosclerotic disease and established and novel risk factors for predicting myocardial infarction and cardiac death in healthy middle-aged subjects: Rationale and design of the Heinz Nixdorf RECALL study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 212-218

  Schmermund, Axel ^a   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Stang, Andreas ^a   Grönemeyer, Dietrich ^b,c   Seibel, Rainer ^c,d   Hirche, Herbert ^a   Mann, Klaus ^a   Siffert, Winfried ^a   Lauterbach, Karl ^e   Siegrist, Johannes ^f   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Institute for MicroTherapy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE PRESSURE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; THROMBOGENICITY;

EID: 0036342675     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2002.123579     Document Type: Article

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