Relation between markers of systemic vascular inflammation and smoking in women

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1117-1119

  Bermudez, Edmund A ^a,b,d   Rifai, Nader ^c   Buring, Julie E ^b,d   Manson, JoAnn E ^a,d   Ridker, Paul M ^a,b,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PADGEM PROTEIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; E-SELECTIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; P-SELECTIN; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0036570082     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02284-1     Document Type: Article

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