Relation of coronary artery ectasia to diabetes mellitus

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1165-1167

  Androulakis, Aristides E ^a,b   Andrikopoulos, Georgios K ^a   Kartalis, Athanasios N ^a   Stougiannos, Pavlos N ^a   Katsaros, Andreas A ^a   Syrogiannidis, Dimitrios N ^a   Tapanlis, Eustratios N ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 1942467993     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.01.049     Document Type: Article

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