Alcohol Consumption and Carotid Atherosclerosis in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2252-2259

  Mukamal, Kenneth J ^a   Kronmal, Richard A ^b   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,c   O'Leary, Daniel H ^d   Polak, Joseph F ^e   Cushman, Mary ^f,g   Siscovick, David S ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Epidemiology; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0346753445     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000101183.58453.39     Document Type: Article

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