Vascular structure versus function: Is endothelial dysfunction of independent prognostic importance or not?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 624-628

  Mancini, G B John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTIMA; LERICHE SYNDROME; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASOUND; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1242272744     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.11.017     Document Type: Editorial

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