Endothelial function predicts future development of coronary artery disease: A study of women with chest pain and normal coronary angiograms

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2518-2523

  Bugiardini, Raffaele ^a   Manfrini, Olivia ^a   Pizzi, Carmine ^a   Fontana, Fiorella ^a   Morgagni, Gianluigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Macerata Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Angina; Endothelium; Prognosis; Women

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 2642525262     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000128208.22378.E3     Document Type: Article

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