Decrease in carotid intima-media thickness in hypothyroid patients after normalization of thyroid function

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 607-612

  Nagasaki, Toshiki ^a   Inaba, Masaaki ^a   Henmi, Yasuko ^a   Kumeda, Yasuro ^a   Ueda, Misako ^a   Tahara, Hideki ^a   Sugiguchi, Shigeru ^a   Fujiwara, Shigehiko ^a   Emoto, Masanori ^a   Ishimura, Eiji ^a   Onoda, Naoyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuro ^a   Nishizawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIOTHYRONINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTIMA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; TUNICA MEDIA;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROXINE; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 10744231122     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01893.x     Document Type: Article

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