Carotid intima-media thickness and coronary artery disease: An Indian perspective

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-221

  Hansa, Gupta ^a   Bhargava, Kartikeya ^a   Bansal, Manish ^a   Tandon, Sharad ^a   Kasliwal, Ravi R ^a  

^a ESCORTS HEART INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0346903244     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230301100308     Document Type: Article

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