Plasma homocysteine level and the angiographic extent of coronary artery disease

Angiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-270

  Bozkurt, Engin ^a,b   Keles, Sait ^a   Acikel, Mahmut ^a,b   Islek, Mesut ^a,b   Ateşal, Sebahattin ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (Turkey)

^b ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 2442629250     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970405500305     Document Type: Article

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