Risk factors for progression of atherosclerosis measured at multiple sites in the arterial tree: The Rotterdam study

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2374-2379

  Van der Meer, Irene M ^a   Del Sol, Antonio Iglesias ^a   Hak, A Elisabeth ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^a,b   Hofman, Albert ^a   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cohort studies; Gender; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0141530987     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000088643.07108.19     Document Type: Article

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