Calcified plaques of extracranial carotid arteries and left ventricular geometry as predictors of coronary artery disease;Kalzifizierte plaques der extrakraniellen karotiden und linksventrikuläre geometrie als prädiktoren für koronararterienstenosen

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 72-78

  Nossen, Joerg Michael ^a   Vierzigmann, Thomas ^b   Lang, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calcified carotid plaques; Coronary artery disease; Coronary risk factors; Left ventricular geometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0344406937     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-003-1229-1     Document Type: Article

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