Is aortic dilatation an atherosclerosis-related process? Clinical, laboratory, and transesophageal echocardiographic correlates of thoracic aortic dimensions in the population with implications for thoracic aortic aneurysm formation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1076-1083

  Agmon, Yoram ^a,b   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^a   Meissner, Irene ^a   Schwartz, Gary L ^a   Sicks, JoRean D ^a   Fought, Angela J ^a   O'Fallon, W Michael ^a   Wiebers, David O ^a   Tajik, A Jamil ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042234264     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00922-7     Document Type: Article

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